Sam Altman is not having a good couple of weeks; ever since he said OpenAI’s ram needs are more important than consumer electronics, the internet has been unforgiving. But one man has taken …
Probably not enough to care if you’re paying for your electricity. I’m living in a sharehouse where utilities are included, so I get to keep all of the $2.25 to $2.75 USD that it makes me during the day. It would probably cost me 60-65p just to run the GPU for that long. My room is tiny and well insulated, so my RTX 4080 Super generates enough heat to keep my room warm with the radiator turned off, so it’s probably not costing my landlord much more.
how much does one make off of this in a typical month?
Probably not enough to care if you’re paying for your electricity. I’m living in a sharehouse where utilities are included, so I get to keep all of the $2.25 to $2.75 USD that it makes me during the day. It would probably cost me 60-65p just to run the GPU for that long. My room is tiny and well insulated, so my RTX 4080 Super generates enough heat to keep my room warm with the radiator turned off, so it’s probably not costing my landlord much more.