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Google's AI-powered search summaries use 10x more energy than a standard Google search | The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI (jacobin.com)
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[โ€“] just_another_person 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

To be fair, it was never "hidden" since all the top 5 decided that GPU was the way to go with this monetization.

Guess who is waiting on the other side of this idiocy with a solution? AMD with cheap FPGA that will do all this work at 10x the speed and similar energy reduction. At a massive fraction of the cost and hassle for cloud providers.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Google already has their own TPUs, under the name Coral