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pudgywalsh • 08/18/2026 • 2 replies • view on HN

For the amount of electricity wasted by the LLM in the data center it would have been more efficient to buy a new printer that works out of the box.


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bethekidyouwant • 08/18/2026

Redditors actually believe this

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yjftsjthsd-h • 08/19/2026

Do we have good numbers for the embodied energy of a printer? I would be interested to know what the actual cutoff point is.