• Todd Bonzalez
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    2520 hours ago

    A small city usually requires one gigawatt continuous power. 10 minutes of power is equal to 100k kWh.

    A 200x200 GenAI image takes about 2 seconds on an RTX 3060 running at 170W. That 2 seconds of power is equal to 0.000094 kWh.

    The meme is off by a factor of 1,063,829,787.

    • @kofe
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      320 hours ago

      So how many images would need to be generated at once to take down a city 👀

        • @RoidingOldMan
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          18 hours ago

          1,063,829,787

          It would be that many times the squared volume of a 200x200 image. Which is already 40,000 pixels. Multiply those together and you get 4.25 million megapixels (which are 1 billion pixels each), aka 4.25 gigapixels. It’s extremely large but not unachievable.

          People are AI generating entire movies which are 24-30 pictures per second. Seems like you could hit really big numbers really really fast.

          • @[email protected]
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            16 hours ago

            People are AI generating entire movies which are 24-30 pictures per second.

            I don’t think they’re generating those movies in real time.