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Re:A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental cos... by Panzer04 on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @08:38AM (#41578965)
1kj is nothing. That's 0.3wh, or 0.0003kwh.
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Re:A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental cos... by marginalia_nu on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @08:54AM (#41579124)
That's for a single inference though. You can do about 3600 of them in an hour.
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Re:A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental cos... by aubanel on Thursday September 19, 2024 @02:38AM (#41589192)
Yes but the article's setting is precisely about 1 email so 1 inference, and their number is 0.14kWh, which is way off.
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