I work in the sustainability industry so this is obviously important to me, but I agree the article needed more work. Comparing the energy required to train GPT

I work in the sustainability industry so this is obviously important to me, but I agree the article needed more work. Comparing the energy required to train GPT3 to watching Netflix is nonsensical. Training is a global task. A better comparison would be the cost to train GPT vs that to upload all Netflix movies. Plus, there are weird things with the figures. It lists the 0.012kwh figure required to charge a smartphone, but the source it cites for that number explicitly says that the correct number is 0.022kwh. Was this article hallucinated by AI? Overall though, frankly I found it comforting that AI would “only” use 0.5% of global electricity, as I expected much higher. Google and several other peers are committed to being 100% renewable anyway. Still, credit to the author for starting discussion about this.