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minus-squareFlowVoid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·6 hours agoThe MAG7 operate large and growing cloud services, so their datacenter costs would grow even without any AI training. And charging $5 for a video query does not mean the query uses $5 of energy. The query is priced to recoup training costs that were already incurred.
The MAG7 operate large and growing cloud services, so their datacenter costs would grow even without any AI training.
And charging $5 for a video query does not mean the query uses $5 of energy. The query is priced to recoup training costs that were already incurred.