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Re:LLMs Are Cheap by johnisgood on Monday June 09, 2025 @09:04AM (#44224090)
How about indirect? At any rate, something is going on, because our summers are more and more hotter, and there are no snow during our winters. We are all noticing it but it gets shrugged off as "misremembering". I am not contributing it to running LLMs alone, however, but climate change seems real enough to me, I experience it. It is barely July and I am dying! We used to have more tolerable weather around this time of year, for a long time.
Re:LLMs Are Cheap by fastball on Monday June 09, 2025 @10:43AM (#44225010)
Yes, but what does climate change have to do specifically with LLMs? How are they different from any other use of energy? As far as I can tell they are better than most uses, given that (as software) they run entirely with electricity, which of course can be generated with near-zero CO2 emissions.

Given that, this interjection about climate change seems like a complete non-sequitur to the topic at hand.

Re:LLMs Are Cheap by johnisgood on Monday June 09, 2025 @01:43PM (#44226969)
I do not think it has anything to do with LLMs. That is probably the least of our issues.