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It's kinda hard to show work because the exact usage for LLM's has a lot of variance.
But even with the most liberal values, this is absolutely true.
A single beef burger can take 1500-2500 litres to produce.
Sending a few hundred queries to your chosen LLM could be 1-5 litres, depending on model, and complexity.
OK, I would like to see the sources you used for those numbers.
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