ChatGPT consumes enough power in one year to charge over three million electric cars
Summary
An article detailing the estimated electricity consumption of ChatGPT's inference and training processes, comparing energy use to electric vehicle charging and national power grids.
Key quotes
Each ChatGPT query consumes an estimated 2.9 Wh of electricity, nearly ten times more than a standard Google search.
ChatGPT consumes 226.8 GWh each year to process 78 billion prompts.
Training the GPT-4 model, with over a trillion parameters, consumed some 62.3 GWh of electricity over 100 days.
The article references a report by BestBrokers to quantify the energy requirements of large language models. It provides specific metrics for both the inference phase and the initial training of GPT-3 and GPT-4.