First-of-its-kind US bill would address the environmental costs of the technology, but there’s a long way to go.

one assessment suggests that ChatGPT, the chatbot created by OpenAI in San Francisco, California, is already consuming the energy of 33,000 homes. It’s estimated that a search driven by generative AI uses four to five times the energy of a conventional web search. Within years, large AI systems are likely to need as much energy as entire nations.

  • Flying Squid
    2•9 months ago

    Do I have to account for that? Or can I say that 10,000 more households than this town I live in of almost 60,000 people is a whole lot of energy regardless?

    And I’m really more concerned about the water anyway. You don’t seem to be, which is odd considering what I already posted about how much water is being used in Iowa and how little fresh water there will be available in the U.S. in 50 years. I guess because you’ll likely be dead by then anyway?