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AI models will pretty undeniably affect your electricity bill; yes you already own the computer, but it will cost more to run it if it's doing inference!
by dofm 5mo ago
AI models will pretty undeniably affect your electricity bill; yes you already own the computer, but it will cost more to run it if it's doing inference!
- TylerE 5mo agoTo a point, but we're talking a laptop, not a server farm. Even if you're going fullbore wide open 24/7 that's about $150/yr in electricity bills at average rates. Not quite nothing but in terms of AI costs that's pretty close to rounding to zero.