File:Energy consumption per ChatGPT query compared to everyday electricity use.png
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English: With reasonable and somewhat pessimistic assumptions, a GPT-4o query consumes around 0.3 watt-hours for a typical text-based question, though this increases substantially to 2.5 to 40 watt-hours for queries with very long inputs. As shown in the charts below, this is somewhere between a negligible to a small portion of everyday electricity usage. |
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| Source | https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-much-energy-does-chatgpt-use |
| Author | Josh You |
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