Servers that are no longer cutting edge can be repurposed for hosting websites or doing more basic data processing tasks, or they can be donated to educational institutions.
Alternatively, this means that those not doing AI are going to benefit from cheap and powerful equipment; that is, unless the declining efficiency of even non-AI software catches up.
And Microsoft has pledged to limit e-waste production from its data centers.
...while at the same time strongly pushing planned obsolescence in its software.
Also, it’s possible to do inference on less than cutting edge hardware. The open models will propagate allover the world and people will run their own local, fine tuned models on e waste.
This infinite hype-cycle, for the product that doesnt work, that nobody wants, and nobody needs somehow imagines a grandiose scale which requires an extraordinary need for energy and water that no one can spare, and an overwhelming volume of e-waste that nobody knows what to do with.
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Servers that are no longer cutting edge can be repurposed for hosting websites or doing more basic data processing tasks, or they can be donated to educational institutions.
Alternatively, this means that those not doing AI are going to benefit from cheap and powerful equipment; that is, unless the declining efficiency of even non-AI software catches up.
And Microsoft has pledged to limit e-waste production from its data centers.
...while at the same time strongly pushing planned obsolescence in its software.
Also, it’s possible to do inference on less than cutting edge hardware. The open models will propagate allover the world and people will run their own local, fine tuned models on e waste.
This infinite hype-cycle, for the product that doesnt work, that nobody wants, and nobody needs somehow imagines a grandiose scale which requires an extraordinary need for energy and water that no one can spare, and an overwhelming volume of e-waste that nobody knows what to do with.