Post #2518099
2026-05-12 08:41 UTC
"We wanted to learn about the full environmental cost of AI data centres. Manufacturers did not want to help. So we bought a used Nvidia A100 GPU and ground it to pieces" (paraphrased).
I like this paper.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03537-5 (see the text around Fig. 6)
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@Tokamak@mastodon.art 2026-05-12 14:26
@derf@social.skyshaper.org Workstation cards are so power hungry. It was just a single card, but someone I knew once had an RTX6000 iirc, and they mostly played Overwatch and did Quake art with it... :BlobCat_Eyes: Sure it won't use a lot of power in that case, but it was ~£5K at the time...