Trying not to get pulled into this argument…as I´m travelling and iNatting! … but :
This feels like disinformation to leave this hanging in this thread at this point.
See Andy Masley posts linked above by me and @upupa-epops …which in turn pulls from MIT review amongst others.
The upper bound is more like 3wh so 0.003 kWh per prompt
A fraction of 0.14kWh
See Andy Masley specific breakdown of why Washington post number is an outlier here.
Not dug into this, but I see there is a nice interactive HuggingFace tool around energy usage per prompt also : https://huggingface.co/spaces/jdelavande/chat-ui-energy
I´m also gonna drop in some of Andy´s lovely visuals as everyone seems to want to keep continuing with the environmental impact trope regardless of all the information we have to counter this argument. Maybe the quick and easy on the eye comparisons will help.
All these graphs are from here.
