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I'd like all ai service to publish the energy used in training the model and performing inference.
"Queries uses an average of X kWh of power. A model training run requires X MWh, and the development of this model over the years required X TWh of power."
Then we could judge companies by that metric. Off course, rich people would look for the most power-draining model for the sake of it.
That's already something that Meta is doing for their Llama models:
You can extrapolate openai models consumption from these I guess
ok, but
Is it still bad if they use renewables? in which case, it's not horrendous, is it?
what about the rest of their servers?
Fuck facebook