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lelag | 6 months ago

In his last blog post, Sam Altman also revealed how much power the average chatgpt query uses, and it's in the same ballpark.

> People are often curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses; the average query uses about 0.34 watt-hours, about what an oven would use in a little over one second, or a high-efficiency lightbulb would use in a couple of minutes. It also uses about 0.000085 gallons of water; roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon.

https://blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-singularity

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esafak|6 months ago

Gallons and teaspoons ... the units of measurements in the 21. century!