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‘Thirsty’ ChatGPT uses four times more water than previously thought (www.thetimes.com)

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Writing a 100-word email using ChatGPT (GPT-4, latest model) consumes 1 x 500ml bottle of water It uses 140Wh of energy, enough for 7 full charges of an iPhone Pro Max

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[-] JWBananas@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Does that account for cooling? Storage? Networking? Non-H100 compute and memory?

[-] Naz@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Nope. Just GPU board power draw. 60 seconds is also pretty long with how fast these enterprise cards are but I'm assuming they're using a giant 450B or 1270B model.

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