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by xdertz 10 days ago
I find it hard to see how that would ever be economical. LLMs need very expensive power hungry chips and datacenters have

- bulk discounts - cheaper electricity - high utilisation to spread the costs among many users

I don't see how PCs could ever compete against it. Most users AI demands would probably result in >90% idle time on the GPU.