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[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

How does a wattage meter on my computer measure power used by an LLM server someplace else per prompt?

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

I have a LLM server on my computer, so I can tell how much electricity it is using this way. It's not somewhere else is how

[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world -2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Cool but that is not the question I asked is it then mate.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

You asked if there's a way to tell how much power LLMs use, you didn't specify LLMs on a server you don't have physical access to.

[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world -3 points 6 hours ago

It says LLMs meaning in general so you can take it any way you like.