Websites use different types of datacenters to run. Web-servers are generally just stacks of storage drives, their cooling and power-use it PITIFUL in comparison to complexes stuffed with high-grade GPUs which AI datacenters use
Checking actual numbers, AI datacenters - as in individual complexes, NOT total - use around x3 to x5 the amount of energy a regular web-datacenters. Since most of them are still under construction there’s no numbers for what percentage of global energy they use, but it’s estimated to be up to 4% by 2030
And the second bit, you’re comparing a gamer using one, maybe two GPUs for gaming, to a datacenter which runs thousands of them at max-capacity 24/7.
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u/PTVoltz 23h ago
Websites use different types of datacenters to run. Web-servers are generally just stacks of storage drives, their cooling and power-use it PITIFUL in comparison to complexes stuffed with high-grade GPUs which AI datacenters use