Using a Kill-a-watt to measure, my M2 Max will pull around 60 watts for 10-15 seconds while running stable diffusion, and the Apple chips aren’t even especially

Using a Kill-a-watt to measure, my M2 Max will pull around 60 watts for 10-15 seconds while running stable diffusion, and the Apple chips aren’t even especially suited for the task. Hosted services in data centers with Nvidia GPUs are probably more efficient per image. There’s no chance I’m using more energy in a month of playing with stable diffusion with 10 second bursts of load than there is in an hour of playing a AAA game which will have my gaming system pulling about 260 watts sustained.