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Linus Torvalds uses AI to debug an Intel GPU driver bug (github.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago* by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (7 children)

They are not magic. You are still using electricity, and for the same amount of work that cloud providers do you will consume the same amount. If every one of the billions of people using chatgpt or whatever buys rtx 5090 and makes it churn 24/7 for their "local" ai then nothing will change for the environment.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago*

    no you won't, datacenters inherently use far more electricity because they need enormous and intensive water cooling systems to cool the equipment

    99% of consumer gpus, even the high end, are air cooled with tiny fans

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    But isn't it as bad as running a graphically intensive AAA game on your computer

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    That's still just moving the impact from data centers to end users' machines.

    Gamers (especially those that own 5090) are a tiny minority compared to llm users.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    CPU?

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  • [–] -1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    This will just waste even more energy since cpus are less efficient at this kind of task.

    LLMs require insane amounts of compute, period. The hardware to do that needs energy and emits heat, there is no way around.

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