It's quickly pointed out that he's not counting the training of models, producing all the GPUs, energy spent on scraping, the increased storage needs from scraping the whole internet, etc.
The Netflix number is probably not counting all the energy spent producing the shows/movies, building all the cameras/specialized equipment, building their data centers etc. either.
It is fair to compare inference to streaming. Both are done by the end user.
The Netflix number is probably not counting all the energy spent producing the shows/movies, building all the cameras/specialized equipment, building their data centers etc. either.
It is fair to compare inference to streaming. Both are done by the end user.