Author name: Brendan Best

Brendan is editor of RocketSurgery.ca. He is a software engineer, musician and farmer living in Eastern Ontario. His areas of interest include distributed computing, Open Source AI Models, The Fediverse, and all aspects of sustainability in computing.

Artificial Intelligence, technology, Uncategorized

What will the energy hungry demands of LLM’s mean for energy prices?

Conspicuous in its absence from the recent OpenAI announcement was any discussion or acknowledgement about what the new models energy demands will be like. Alongside the ethical concerns about the data used to train GenAI, the energy demands and carbon footprint of Cloud Computing and specifically where GenAI is concerned remains a significant risk associated with the technology, and conversely for all of us.

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