Charlie Stross on Nostr: This is a good point. A GPU/NPU tax of roughly $1/year per watt of power consumption ...
This is a good point. A GPU/NPU tax of roughly $1/year per watt of power consumption would work wonders to blow up the AI bullshit! Your Android or iPhone would pay pennies, a gaming laptop might pay a ghastly $50/year surcharge … but LLM-grinding data centres would get slammer for billions a year.
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