10 google searches are also free

You didn't click on the link I shared. I'm talking about the cost to produce the response, not the request. One AI prompt uses around 10 times more CPU and energy than a Google search.

If ChatGPT handles 1 billion queries a day, that's like the energy cost of 10 billion Google searches every single day.

Someone has to pay the electricity bill. We all know it's not free like you claim.

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112233 a day ago | parent [-]

you also didn't click on the link the poster you replied to shared...

seconding openrouter and fal, having to muck around with idiosyncrasies of each vendor just to try their "bestest model" and find out it does not satisfy your requirements is a chore.

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pyman a day ago | parent [-]

I'd stick with Google Search until Microsoft figures out how to handle a billion OpenAI requests a day without draining the water supply of entire cities. Because in Chile, for example, people are struggling.

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ruthvik947 18 hours ago | parent [-]

https://andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sheet-for-conversa...

	▲	pyman 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sorry, but I'm not interested in blog posts from lobbyist in Washington, the same place pushing to build mega datacentres with Nvidia servers in developing countries. Also, Andy's blog post doesn't mention infrastructure-scale impacts. Even small actions add up, and as AI scales exponentially, so does the demand on energy and water. That part gets left out. I'll stick with the research papers published by AI researchers [1] and investigative journalists [2], but thanks for sharing your link, it gives me a good idea of what lobbyists in Washington aren't saying. [1] https://eng.ox.ac.uk/case-studies/the-true-cost-of-water-guz... [2] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-impacts-data-cent...