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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (9 children)

And they will probably use the energy equivalent to a small nation to do the training. LLMs are great.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

Their data centers are 100% powered by renewable energy. Google is 100% carbon free. It's not as bad as you think it is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

90% of the time they are "carbon free" through carbon offsets, which are generally a huge amount of bs.

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