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		gosub100 28 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI AI energy claims are misrepresented by excluding the training steps. If it wasn't using that much more energy then they wouldn't need to build so many new data centers, use so much more water, and our power bills wouldn't increase to subsidize it.

HighGoldstein 28 days ago [–]

I assume the energy claims for Netflix don't take into account the total consumption of the content production either.

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