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Just in defence of your point:
I prefer to self host, and am in the process of setting up my entire system to run off solar (tiny 2x250 watt solar array, 3 deep cycle marine batteries and sundry equipment).
End to end, my AI rig - a BC-250 (a cut down PS5, basically) consumes 50w standby / 200w on inference and can run Qwen 3.6-27b (on par with Sonnet 4.5 on the AAII) at good speeds.
With a smart power plug and Raspberry pi (2w) as the pilot fish, I can run my entire system "off grid", with about 7 days battery back up.
For $1500 AUD, "Poor man's Sonnet 4.5 at home" ain't nothing to sneeze at.
Outside of folks such as myself, this blog post may be of interest -
https://blog.andymasley.com/p/individual-ai-use-is-not-bad-for