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> Electricity is charged whenever you use it or not, [...] Huh, what? You know you can turn off unused equipment, and at least my nvidia GPU can use more or l
by eru 8mo ago
> Electricity is charged whenever you use it or not, [...]
Huh, what? You know you can turn off unused equipment, and at least my nvidia GPU can use more or less Watts even when turned on?
Or does Anthropic have a flatline deal for electricity and cooling?
- himata4113 8mo agoin datacenters power allocation is a fixed cost.
- eru 8mo agoIf you are big enough, you can and will negotiate.
- himata4113 8mo agothe datacenter has a fixed cost for power, industrial power is not consumer power especially at large scale. Scale really kicks in if you own your power plant (ex: hydro, wind, solar).
- eru 8mo agoData centres are more complicated than that. For an example, even if you have a fixed power budget at the data centre level, you still have opportunity costs: if you turn some unused GPUs off, you can run other things hotter.