alt Hacker NewsYou're not including the physical supply chain energy consumption of distributing video game equipment in this analysis. Nobody ships LLMs to big box stores and tries to sell them to consumers.
You're not including the physical supply chain energy consumption of distributing video game equipment in this analysis. Nobody ships LLMs to big box stores and tries to sell them to consumers.
Historically all those boxes and discs were significant, at least if you sum them all for all time.
Today physical discs are rapidly becoming a niche that newer consoles just won't have. PC games are almost never sold physically anymore.