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Looks like global energy consumption has risen by an order of magnitude from 1900 to 2000: https://www.encyclopedie-energie.org/en/world-energy-consumption-1800
by gpugreg 2mo ago
Looks like global energy consumption has risen by an order of magnitude from 1900 to 2000: https://www.encyclopedie-energie.org/en/world-energy-consumption-1800-2000-results/#h3-1 https://www.encyclopedie-energie.org/en/world-energy-consump...
Unfortunately, electricity prices did not fall by the same factor, so I fear that training a frontier model will still cause a an unsustainable dent in my monthly budget.
- croemer 2mo agoPrices have dropped by a factor of around 6 in real terms since 1925 for US household electricity. https://chatgpt.com/share/6a6f3f3b-7624-83ed-a11a-248cb39728d2 https://chatgpt.com/share/6a6f3f3b-7624-83ed-a11a-248cb39728...
- Muromec 2mo agoOnly an order of magnitude? I'm both surprised by both the fact it's so low and the fact 1900 is 3x of 1800.