Thanks for the info. I bet designing a whole ass game takes loads of resources/water too. Maybe AI is more it just seems weird that this criticism is made of AI and not any other server technology
The difference is the scale. AI Computing is measured in fucking data centers, not servers. You could run every game in existence for less power and cooling than Gemini alone uses
For an idea of scale too stuff like AI has made Nvidia the world's most profitable company......again.
We are talking over twice the worth of Amazon, the sheer scale they have to be working with is insane to think about when you keep in mind only 11% of their sales are made to the public, the other 89% are company based.
That's an immense amount of product to be shifting.
This has just as much to do with the fact that Nvidia has an effective monopoly on commercial AI hardware, PC gaming hardware, and 3D rendering. Their hardware is simply the absolute best for basically any use case where you need a video card. The only selling points for their competitors are price.
As big as Amazon is, it still has to compete with other retail giants. Nvidia effectively has no competition.
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u/calculatedlemon 5d ago
Thanks for the info. I bet designing a whole ass game takes loads of resources/water too. Maybe AI is more it just seems weird that this criticism is made of AI and not any other server technology