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Estimated power usage per request, in watt-hours Basic Google search: 0.3* Chat-GPT: 2.9 Bloom: 4 Google AI: 8 Stable Diffusion: 11.5 One full cellphone charge: 22 *(this figure is from 2009 and I’ve seen research now estimating it at 0.04 Wh)

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Sources: EPRI, Powering Intelligence; Luccioni et al, Power Hungry Processing; blog post by computer science professor Wim Vanderbauwhede. All freely available to read, I can provide direct links if folks are curious

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