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In my experience, academic LLM use is typically models made by the researchers themselves that run on computers at the university rather than data centers. The main issues of plagiarism and environmentalism mostly don't apply. That may be changing in the current environment, though.
Google CoLab is offered to students (1 year feee, IIRC) and all my professors hopped on that bandwagon at that point.
All homework or projects were done in CoLab, and you had a pretty sizable amount of tokens to get your work done as well.
I don't blame my profs too much though, before they switched to CoLab, we would have these dumb fuck saudi royalty pieces of shit hold up class and make the professor troubleshoot why their shit wasn't working, even if they had an entire week before class to figure it out on their own.
They would do it with everything like struggling to set up their IDE. The most egregious was when the M1-chip MacBooks came out, the university said for our program we needed a windows machine with X cores and X threads using intel or AMD (mainly for virtual machines). These kids thought the requirement was optional, bought the brand new macs that couldn't run VMs, then took up multiple weeks of class time trying to troubleshoot with the professor.
He couldn't even fail them because educational institutions in Amerikkka pass anyone if they have enough money / complain enough.