this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2024
1022 points (97.3% liked)

Technology

59377 readers
5130 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
1022
Google's AI-powered search summaries use 10x more energy than a standard Google search | The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI (jacobin.com)
submitted 4 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
146 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] quick@thelemmy.club 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Googles tpu can't handle llm's lol. What do you mean "exactly"?

[–] kromem@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

In fact, Gemini was trained on, and is served, using TPUs.

Google said its TPUs allow Gemini to run “significantly faster” than earlier, less-capable models.

Did you think Google's only TPUs are the ones in the Pixel phones, and didn't know that they have server TPUs?