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How is it a waste of money if a lot of people, including the author of the article, already have an nVidia GPU in their PC? Running locally has a lot of advant
by borisk 1y ago
How is it a waste of money if a lot of people, including the author of the article, already have an nVidia GPU in their PC?
Running locally has a lot of advantages - privacy, getting to learn how to run LLMs, not having to deal with quotas, logins, outages.
- hu3 1y agoHome electricity bill of a decent GPU alone is usually more expensive than renting GPUs on demand.
- borisk 1y agoDo you have any numbers to back that statement up? E.g. I have solar panels and a home battery and pay less than a $100 a year for electricity.
- hu3 1y agoSolar panels aren't free. And aren't hassle-free either. I wouldn't even bring that into the equasion since a large part of the population can't use solar panels. Not to mention GPU value depreciation.