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For the amount of electricity wasted by the LLM in the data center it would have been more efficient to buy a new printer that works out of the box.
by pudgywalsh 29d ago
For the amount of electricity wasted by the LLM in the data center it would have been more efficient to buy a new printer that works out of the box.
- bethekidyouwant 29d agoRedditors actually believe this
- NewsaHackO 29d agoAlso, they seem to care about wasting electricity but doesn’t bat an eye of discarding a perfectly fine printer.
- Quothling 29d agoI'm not GP but I assume the point they were making was that throwing away the old printer a buying a new one would consume less world resources than using Claude to build this driver.
- yjftsjthsd-h 28d agoDo we have good numbers for the embodied energy of a printer? I would be interested to know what the actual cutoff point is.