California Electricity Prices Soar, Making Personal GPUs Unviable

Developers report that daytime electricity prices in Menlo Park, California have hit 53.8 cents per kWh. Due to these soaring costs, running personal GPUs for model training or inference is no longer economically viable unless achieving exceptionally high model FLOPs utilization.

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