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Energy costs of final ML training runs are roughly one fifth of the hardware costs.

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The energy cost of final training runs seems about 20% as large as the hardware cost

https://epoch.ai/blog/trends-in-the-dollar-training-cost-of-machine-learning-systemsextraction 0.80

Appendix title; based on the GPT-3 example, energy cost is about 15–24% of the hardware cost, and the author assumes hardware cost is generally several times larger than energy cost.

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