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Google's AI-powered search summaries use 10x more energy than a standard Google search | The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI (jacobin.com)
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[–] 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?