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AI helps lighten the load on the electric grid – without skimping on people’s energy use. (theconversation.com)

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[-] over_clox@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Plus absolutely no mention of how much energy the Merlin AI servers will consume, when AI server farms are known to consume enough energy to power a village or small city..

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 11 points 3 months ago

This, too. With some numbers they could even reason "look, this system demands X% energy, but you're predicted to economise Y% in the long run, and Y > X". But there's nothing like that in the text.

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