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by WASDx 1212 days ago
A thing to keep in mind is that 1 MWh of raw calories takes much more than 1 MWh to produce (fuel for tractors, inefficiency of meat etc). The GPU energy is also easier to make renewable.

I did an extremely rough calculation recently that the training of GPT-3 is comparable to one transatlantic flight (all passengers combined) in terms of emissions, very depending on the energy mix of course.