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Oh, wait β¦ youβre telling me they just phased that out? :(
But yeah, as it turns out energy prices matter; itβs not just corporate overlords of the fuel companies spreading astroturf when people point out the still-high costs of using renewables. It matters to homes and cars and industry too, and when energy costs more, the nation will have less.
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Speed of light and data governance laws.
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I have three Asus ESC8000 G3 with 8*3080 GPUs each. I have been hosting in the basement but looking at colocation or renting a space. Colocation pricing doesn't seem to favor power-hungry GPU servers though.
I have a source for cheap Asus ESC8000 G3 and cheap 3080 turbo cards, in case anyone needs to set up machines for ML inference, mail me.
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What was more shocking to me in that article was that google used 25% of Dallas's water supply.
Between power use and water use, while I appreciate teaching people to be mindful and responsible, I feel like caring slightly less about where I set my thermometer or if I have a long shower when our country's resources are being depleted by big tech and alfalfa shipments to China and almond harvests in California.
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JFC. Meanwhile, Hetzner charges 26 ct/kWh in Finland and 53 ct/kWh in Germany [1]. At these prices (and yes, I'm aware these also include the cooling costs) it's completely inexplicable to me how Germany can ever get actually competitive with US services.
[1] https://www.hetzner.com/de/colocation/