| ▲ | lelandbatey 3 hours ago | |
Some external context on those approximate claims: - Run a 1500W USA microwave for 10 seconds: 15,000 joules - Llama 3.1 405B text generation prompts: On average 6,706 joules total, for each response - Stable Diffusion 3 Medium generating a 1024 x 1024 pixel image w/ 50 diffusion steps: about 4,402 joules [1] - MIT Technology Review, 2025-05-20 https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energ... | ||
| ▲ | wongarsu 19 minutes ago | parent [-] | |
A single Google search in 2009: about 1,000 joules Couldn't find any more up-to-date number, everyone just keeps repeating that 0.0003kWh number from 2009 https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/powering-google-sear... | ||