TBF most of these are failures and exploits on older devices.

Which are a dime a dozen across the entire industry. Security is rather difficult, especially when considering exploits and bugs.

Ofc many of these ARE the results of cut corners, though many are just a lack of security awareness or old devices with known exploits discovered long after manufacturing.

A flight to Europe’s worth of energy is a pretty asinine way to measure this. Is it not?

It’s also not that small the number, being ~600 Megawatts of energy.

However, training cost is considerably less than prompting cost. Making your argument incredibly biased.

Similarly, the numbers released by Google seem artificially low, perhaps their TPUs are massively more efficient given they are ASICs. But they did not seem to disclose what model they are using for this measurement, It could be their smallest, least capable and most energy efficient model which would be disingenuous.

That’s not small…

100’s of Gigawatts is how much energy that is. Fuel is pretty damn energy dense.

A Boeing 777 might burn 45k Kg of fuel, at a density of 47Mj/kg. Which comes out to… 600 Megawatts

Or about 60 houses energy usage for a year in the U.S.

It’s an asinine way to measure it to be fair, not only is it incredibly ambiguous, but almost no one has any reference as to how much energy that actually is.

Every thread has one Linux bro, stumbling around dazed and confused, still searching to understand why people use a different OS. Always asking “Why do people even use that?” Ignorant of the litany of reasons the real world behaves the way it does.

Windows sucks, in a lot of ways, we get it. But holy hell find a different schrick.