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Too bad they consume 25x the electricity Google does. https://www.brusselstimes.com/world-all-news/1042696/chatgpt-consumes-25-times-more-energy-than-google ht

• simonw 2y ago
  That's not a well sourced story: it doesn't say where the numbers come from. Also: "However, ChatGPT consumes a lot of energy in the process, up to 25 times more than a Google search." That's comparing a Large Language Model prompt to a search query.
• joshstrange 2y ago
  > Too bad they consume 25x the electricity Google does. From the article: "However, ChatGPT consumes a lot of energy in the process, up to 25 times more than a Google search." And the article doesn't back that claim up nor do they break out how much energy ChatGPT (A Message? Whole conversation? What?) or a Google search uses. Honestly the whole article seems very alarmist while being light on details and making sweeping generalizations.
• rvnx 2y ago
  And in this 25x you get your answer. What if we actually counted the electricity that the websites use instead of just the search engine page ?