• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    So one, I’m on solar, and I was on a thin and light laptop.

    However, I was also running the electric kettle at the time for a nice cup of hater tears.

    How much energy would the electric kettle take relative to a single push to a GPT?

    • Sandbar_Trekker@lemmy.today
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      9 days ago

      Depends on the electric kettle, the first few I looked at on amazon run at ~600-800 Watts.

      So, on the lower end there, you’re looking at about 0.166 Wh every second.

      So a single push to chatGPT (0.3 Wh) uses about the same energy as an electric kettle does in less than 2 seconds.