Underutilization was indeed a problem before. The anecdotes you've presented are not broadly applicable.
The entire reason SETI@Home started was because people had unused hardware sitting idle at home.
Every company I've ever been in has had slides on resource utilization for procured hardware.
In fact not only could the two statements be true, in fact both are true. People want to ignore otherwise because doing so will make local LLM inference sound like the only option when only one is considered.
The entire reason SETI@Home started was because people had unused hardware sitting idle at home. Every company I've ever been in has had slides on resource utilization for procured hardware.
In fact not only could the two statements be true, in fact both are true. People want to ignore otherwise because doing so will make local LLM inference sound like the only option when only one is considered.