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by DANmode 25 days ago
It wouldn’t, they’re subsidizing it for training.

Edit: didn’t realize this occurred on local models(!!),

this is smarter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48779884

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can't explain with subsidies a model you host yourself (like deepseek)
Then you are paying for the electricity. It's not physically possible to do more computation & not use more energy b/c every arithmetic operation requires a minimum amount of energy so more operations = more energy.