Yeah for some reason AI energy use is so overreported. Using chatgpt for query does not even use two order of magnitude less energy compared to toasting a bread. And you can eat bread untoasted too if you care about energy use.

[1]: https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-much-energy-does-chatg...

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ori_b 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

How many slices of toast are you making a day?

If you fly a plane a millimeter, you're using less energy than making a slice of toast; would you also say that it's accurate that all global plane travel is more efficient than making toast?

	▲	YetAnotherNick 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		1-2 slice a day and 1-50 chatgpt query per day. For me it would be within same order of magnitude, and I don't really care about both as both of them are dwarfed by my heater or aircon usage.

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KaiserPro 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

From my estimation each second of gpt eats about 0.5-1.5 watthours

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YetAnotherNick 6 hours ago | parent [-]

You can say it takes 1800-5400 W. Not sure where you are estimating it from.

	▲	KaiserPro 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Depending on what you're doing its taking up to 8GPUs working in parallel to serve those queries.