➴➴➴Æ🜔Ɲ.Ƈꭚ⍴𝔥єɼ👩🏻💻<p><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">technologyreview.com/2025/05/2</span><span class="invisible">0/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech</span></a></p><p>This is an actually good article about <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>energy</span></a> use, and it's affect on <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/carbon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>carbon</span></a>, and <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a>. </p><p>Here are some key things I would add.</p><p>All of these <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/corporations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corporations</span></a> like <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAI</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> and <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> are relying on an <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> being accessed from the <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/cloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cloud</span></a> (the <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a>). </p><p><a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/NVIDIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NVIDIA</span></a> is counting on every increasingly big models.</p><p>Do I think this is the future of <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/generativeai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>generativeai</span></a> </p><p>No. </p><p>I think _that_ is a big <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Bubble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bubble</span></a>. I think every "Size Up" on an AI model gives you an extra 20% in quality. </p><p>So, running a LLAMA 8b is only 20% better than running a LLAMA 3b. </p><p>Right?</p><p>So what?</p><p>Well, 99% of the usecase people have don't require 1 Trillion <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/parameter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>parameter</span></a> models.</p><p>They require models that increasingly can be run locally.</p><p>What do I think is coming? It isn't 30gigawatt data centers, it's laptops running on less energy than current ones with a terrabyte of RAM.</p><p>No one wants the <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> that the <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/MegaCorporations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MegaCorporations</span></a> have created. People want their own shit. They want to own their movies. </p><p>The <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/cloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cloud</span></a> is dead. The companies built on the cloud are dead.</p><p>The just don't know it yet.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@mittechreview" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mittechreview</span></a></span></p>