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But this is not that, the same gpus you play games with are used to run llms. How was energy consumation by gpu not a topic before llms?
> I don't think video games consume nearly as much power. A PS5's power consumption is apparently around 200W. That's not enough to run even one GPU, let alone the armada it presumably takes to run Astra.
Just Steam has 200 million monthly active users. Add Steam, PS, Xbox, and whole other devices having gpus and I'm pretty sure you at least 10x the energy consumption of all ai companies.
> But this is not that, the same gpus you play games with are used to run llms. How was energy consumation by gpu not a topic before llms?
I dunno what you're not getting but a GPU to run games is like 200-500W. A GPU cluster to run Astra is probably more like 10kW.
Also gamers tend not to spin up dozens of other machines to also game for them.