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A comment on Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run... by belter on Friday August 08, 2025 @04:16PM (#44841234)
Except their insane electricity demands will still be the same, meaning nobody will buy them. You have plenty of SPARC servers on Ebay.
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Re:Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run... by cicloid on Friday August 08, 2025 @05:01PM (#44841648)
There is also a community of users known for not making sane financial decisions and keeping older technologies working in their basements.
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Re:Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run... by dijit on Friday August 08, 2025 @05:33PM (#44841917)
But we are few, and fewer still who will go for high power consumption devices with esoteric cooling requirements that generate a lot of noise.
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