How Hungry is AI? Benchmarking Energy, Water, and Carbon Footprint of LLM Inference (arxiv.org)

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Most of the smaller models, but the better ones are 20-30Wh per query. I'm a pretty infrequent AI user and I easily end up with 10+ queries per conversation, looking at my chatgpt history. Multiplying with the number of users one could see how the total amount of energy could get quite high.

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