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Notes from the bench.
Longer-form writing on measured AI energy use: what moves the number, what does not, and how to check for yourself.
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· local-ai, energy, measurement, agents
Where the energy goes when you run AI on your own hardware
A question-and-answer introduction to what decides the energy cost of local inference: hardware, model, engine, task, settings, and idle time. With sources, and numbers measured on this site's benchmark.
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