last highlighted date: 2024-10-15
Highlights
- At the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos in Jan 2024, Sam Altman warned that the energy demands of future generative AI systems will vastly outstrip expectations and strain global energy systems.
- Currently, it’s estimated that ChatGPT alone uses as much power as 33,000 homes, and a search powered by generative AI consumes four to five times more energy than conventional web searches.
- OpenAI’s large language model GPT-4 resulted in a 6% increase in water usage at the data center cluster powering it.
- Alex de Vries, a researcher at VU Amsterdam, projects that AI could consume between 85 to 134 terawatt hours of electricity annually, equivalent to the total energy usage of the Netherlands by 2027.