alt Hacker NewsAI models will pretty undeniably affect your electricity bill; yes you already own the computer, but it will cost more to run it if it's doing inference!
AI models will pretty undeniably affect your electricity bill; yes you already own the computer, but it will cost more to run it if it's doing inference!
To a point, but we're talking a laptop, not a server farm. Even if you're going fullbore wide open 24/7 that's about $150/yr in electricity bills at average rates. Not quite nothing but in terms of AI costs that's pretty close to rounding to zero.