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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 9768164" data-attributes="member: 20564">Common myth.  Yes, training AIs uses a lot of compute cycles.  Using already trained models on the other hand does not.  I can pull up numbers again, but among my various professional responsibilities I used to manage both owned and co-lo datacenters for a global company.  Power and cooling (which are two sides of the same thing) are old friends.There's a meme going around about how each query is like pour out two bottles of water which is absolutely ridiculous, off by many orders of magnitude.  The folks who repost it frequently generally get angry when I tell them you can use generative AI from your home computer, both text and images, if you have a not-bottom-of-the-line graphics card.</blockquote>