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Another reason to self host your own AI
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this post was submitted on 28 May 2026
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This is a “feel guilty about missing recycling” kind of complaint.
Having a server run for an hour or two (?) a day is negligible. You use more energy running a fridge, or leaving a few lights on, or browsing Lemmy for a while. Or running a docker container for other services. You release more greenhouse gasses eating beef, or driving anywhere, or even opening your front door a few times, and individual industries are going to use vastly more electricity than a few self hosters ever would. If you own an EV, you’ve probably blown out your entire zip code of self hosters.
…But if it still bothers you, you can find an ewaste smartphone(s) and host on that. This is actually a very neat use case IMO.
However, if you get to the homelab scale of “an EPYC + 3090s running all the time” that electricity use does start to add up. But that’s quite a rare hobbyist tier, I’d say, and it really shouldnt be running 24/7.