• Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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    4 months ago

    The article claims 200M ChatGPT requests per day. Assuming they make a new version yearly, that’s 73B requests per training. Spreading 1000MW across 73B requests yields a per-request amortized cost of 0.01 watt. It’s nothing.

    47 more households-worth of electricity just isn’t a major draw on anything. We add ~500,000 households a year from natural growth.