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For the amount of electricity wasted by the LLM in the data center it would have been more efficient to buy a new printer that works out of the box.
by pudgywalsh 1mo ago
For the amount of electricity wasted by the LLM in the data center it would have been more efficient to buy a new printer that works out of the box.
- bethekidyouwant 1mo agoRedditors actually believe this
- NewsaHackO 1mo agoAlso, they seem to care about wasting electricity but doesn’t bat an eye of discarding a perfectly fine printer.
- Quothling 1mo agoI'm not GP but I assume the point they were making was that throwing away the old printer a buying a new one would consume less world resources than using Claude to build this driver.
- yjftsjthsd-h 1mo agoDo we have good numbers for the embodied energy of a printer? I would be interested to know what the actual cutoff point is.