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Re:A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental cos... by marginalia_nu on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @08:28AM (#41578891)
1 kJ is for reference enough to heat 1 L (33 oz) of water by ~0.25C (~0.5F). The machine will probably heat up a few degrees if you run inference once, but since it's essentially one big heatsink it will dissipate throughout the body and into the air. The problem begins when you run it continuously, as you would in a datacenter.

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