[ceh123]

To add some extra numbers here just to showcase how little energy usage this is.

This means it's adding about 0.012% additional energy consumption to those users energy consumption.

From another angle: Average US house energy consumption is around 30kWh per day. 0.012% of that is 3.75 watt hours of energy per day. This is the equivalent amount of energy as streaming HD video to your iPhone on a 4G network for 1.5 seconds. [0]

So in other words, a 15s youtube ad you are forced to watch on your phone before watching the video you were going to watch anyway takes an order of magnitude more energy than the average AI user according to this article.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109623/electricity-cons...

[bumby]

Help me understand. The article claims 20MM users with an average of 24 prompts per day. Do we have any information on the average number of prompts per user? I suspect it would follow a Pareto distribution, with a small subset consuming much much more, but no clue as to where that average assumption holds.

Edit: a quick search points to 5-10 prompts per session but we’d still need to know the average number of sessions

[datadrivenangel]

In December I did 61 images, and in November I did 121, according to Replicate's billing. Probably more like 10-20 images per session, which for me are usually 1-2 times per week?

[visarga]

Yes, I searched this too. There probably are many single round sessions, but the average length is 8-12 messages.