If these guys gave a shit they'd focus on light based chips, which are in very early stages, but will save a lot of power.
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I would point out that Google has been "carbon neutral" with it's data centers for quite some time, unlike others who still rape the environment ahem AWS.
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I'm surprised it's only 10x. Running a prompt though a llm takes quite a bit of energy, so I guess even the regular searches take more energy than I thought.
Same. I think I've read that a single GPT-4 instance runs on a 128 GPU cluster, and ChatGPT can still take something like 30s to finish a long response. A H100 GPU has a TDP of 700w. Hard to believe that uses only 10x more energy than a search that takes milliseconds.
I switched to Kagi like 6 months ago and I still love it. Almost never have to go back to google except for maps.
All of this just to give rich shareholders even more money.
Wait till they learn about the environmental impacts of the oil industry, or the plastic industry.
I think it's time to accept this is battle that can't be won