I bought a datacenter GPU that doesn't fit in a normal motherboard, macgyvered the fan with jumper wires, and now I'm running a model that ties with Claude Sonnet 4.6 on benchmarks, all for £200.
Right? Yet using AI takes less electricity than that. The concerns are being wildly exaggerated, overblown, and I suspect it’s being done intentionally as a psychological attack on societies to hinder competing nations from faster adoption.
I rarely see people agonize over the ethics of playing a game on high settings for hours because of the frivolous use of electricity.
Right? Yet using AI takes less electricity than that. The concerns are being wildly exaggerated, overblown, and I suspect it’s being done intentionally as a psychological attack on societies to hinder competing nations from faster adoption.