Post #2031701
2026-05-05 17:57 UTC
I’d say you should read the article a little more closely, but it’s not written very well. But it brings up interesting things that have nothing to do with your local GPU usage. For example, it names an interesting point about simply delivering 4 gigabytes of data to that many people. If pushed out to ~15% of Chrome users without consent:
That’d be 500 million people
It would be 2 exabytes of data
120 GWh of energy, equivalent to the annual electricity consumption of about 36,000 average UK households
30,000 tonnes CO2 emitted, roughly the annual emissions of 6,500 cars
And that’s just for the initial data push. Models need ✨updates!✨
Replies (2)
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@mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-05 18:13
We must kill the environmental disaster that is Steam.
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@Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-06 11:44
I hate the idea of AI agents on my phone without my consent. So this is definitely fucked up. And fuck google in general. But the power consumption argument makes little sense. That’s like downloading one movie in 1080p. It’d be good if you could show the source for your workings here, because intuitively, these number feels very inflated. Do you have a legit source for your estimates?