It would have been nice if the article did the comparison for us, but the the premise of the article seems correct. According to the article, ChatGPT uses 140

It would have been nice if the article did the comparison for us, but the the premise of the article seems correct. According to the article, ChatGPT uses 140 watt hours to compose a short email. That's considerably more than the battery capacity of many laptops, so even if you spent all day staring at your laptop trying to write the email, you're probably using less energy. Now there's certainly a time advantage to using AI, but LLM based AI is pretty inefficient from an energy perspective.