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1. lolcat (lolcat@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 03:35:55 JST lolcat

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   @foone

   Sucking up resources is evidence Skynet became self sustaining sometime around 1999, and really hit its stride by 2010 or so. GenAI is just more proof.

   Power calc pedantry to follow.

   https://www.washington.edu/news/2023/07/27/how-much-energy-does-chatgpt-use/

   Estimated ~10gwh to train, and ~1gwh/day to run.

   ~500 days in operation, so ~1/2 twh consumed so far.

   ~25pwh annual global electric consumption.

   So, < one fiftythousandth of global consumption (~0.005%).