If you have solar, it is not, because you have battery and equipment degradation from cycle charging, c’mon man…
I would agree with you if you said it was vastly cheaper overall (with the initial equipment investment amortized over time) compared to The Power Company.
In many states, even if you are generating electricity and selling it back to the power company, they still gonna charge you normal rates of usage because greed.
If you go off grid, you have bigger things to worry about than how to power your AI cluster. It’s manageable enough if you have land but that’s in scarce supply.
> if you have solar, it is not, because you have battery and equipment degradation from cycle charging, c’mon man…
no, the rate of that is pretty independent of use. unless you live in a place where selling energy back rules are designed to screw the solar owner (California)
I used to get irked when people would say America is on the path that was portrayed by the film Idiocracy. But the path from "fighting pit on the White House Lawn" to "Extreme Court arena battles featuring monster trucks with giant dildos" increasingly looks like a straight line.
The difference is that president Kamacho cared about his people and was ok with being counseled by the smartest guy in the country to turn things around.
This is akin to saying “it runs on my machine” without actually examining the problem. Sad. You’re absolutely right that 128 tokens is nothing, it’s a little more than a hello response.
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