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Sure but all these self hosted ais are still done by companies who used massive amounts of power and water to train it.
No.
Even the biggest open weights models are trained on pennies compared to OpenAI and Claude. They just don’t have the hardware to be so wasteful.
In fact, the Nvidia GPU ban was the best thing to ever happen to “small” AI devs. It made them thrifty.
Which is an interesting dilemma: Those AIs are already trained. That power and water was used. If you use them, you will not pollute anything. But you may encourage those companies to train another AI