An average US home uses ~10,000 KWh over a year, resulting in about 1 kilowatt average power use. Figures I can find suggest that a 737 uses approximately 7MW

An average US home uses ~10,000 KWh over a year, resulting in about 1 kilowatt average power use. Figures I can find suggest that a 737 uses approximately 7MW to stay aloft. So a couple things I learned -- I think it's still a notable amount of power, enough to power ~6,000 homes for a year just to train a single model. But also, I learned that planes use a whole lot more power than I thought! Training a single model is essentially consuming one plane-year's worth of power, or 3-4 flights continuously while it trains. I had no idea planes used so much energy. But also, I bet most of these companies aren't training one model and calling it done. There's probably 1s or 10s of models being trained per year per company. That's a material amount of energy use. If we could power tens or hundreds of thousands of homes, that isn't 'trivial' energy input. I think it's useful to put it into context next to other things we take for granted, but I don't think it's fair to diminish it as nothing either.