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		delfinom on Aug 2, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Elliott says Nvidia is in a 'bubble' and AI is 'ov... Glut still costs $$$$ to run, electricity isn't cheap at that scale.

philipkglass on Aug 2, 2024 [–]

It's a different order of magnitude, though. Buying an H200 GPU costs upward of $30,000. The electricity cost to run it at full power for a year would only cost me $675 (700 watt TDP, 11 cents per kilowatt hour at my house.)

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