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by YetAnotherNick 542 days ago
Power draw doesn't matter in cloud. All that matters is performance/price for the task in hand.
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In the cloud, opex == energy.
Which is why you don't send 4 TPUs to do 1 GPU's job.
If the TPUs cost less, that implies that they draw less power. If they cost more then nobody will use them.