“But what about gaming GPUs?”
For nvidia "data center brought in 14x as much revenue as the gaming segment last quarter": https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-enjoys-usd130b-annual-earnings-despite-gaming-segment-supply-constraints
14-fucking-x. And I don't have hard data on this but I would bet that the GPUs in data centers spend much more time actually working, so the difference in energy use is much higher than that.
It was not home gaming that made Google revert its sustainability goals: https://fortune.com/2024/07/10/ai-has-destroyed-googles-promise-of-carbon-neutrality-with-emissions-rising-50-over-the-last-five-years/
Or undermine Microsoft's: https://sustainabilitymag.com/articles/how-ais-rise-changed-microsofts-sustainability-strategy
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