Tim BrayMar 13

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@evan/115580076628853324

This was posted 4 months ago, i.e. forever in LLM time. I would really like to see a fully-worked through analysis of the actual GHG cost of #GenAI in general and for coding applications specifically. Including, obviously, training, data centre infrastructure, silicon fabrication, etc.

The reason: I have trouble reconciling these numbers with the insane volumes of investment capital going into the space.

Show threadRaphael Lullis

@timbray

But then you are moving the goal posts. Even if we could stop all construction for data centers and investment into new models, there are already inference models available on the existing infrastructure which do not take a lot of power.

Mar 13 at 4:46pmWeb