According to the US Business Insider website on March 10, the New Yorker magazine recently reported that ChatGPT,

the popular chatbot of the Open Artificial Intelligence Research Center (OpenAI), may consume 500,000 kilowatt hours

of power a day to respond to about 200 million requests.

The magazine reports that the average American household uses about 29 kilowatt hours of electricity per day. Dividing ChatGPT’s

daily electricity consumption by the average household electricity consumption, we can find that ChatGPT’s daily electricity

consumption is more than 17,000 times that of households.

This is very much. If generative artificial intelligence (AI) is adopted further, it may consume even more power.

For example, if Google integrated generative AI technology into every search, it would Approximately 29 billion kilowatt hours of

electricity will be consumed each year.

According to the New Yorker, this is more than the annual electricity consumption of Kenya, Guatemala, Croatia and other countries.

De Vries told Business Insider: “AI is very energy-intensive. Each of these AI servers already consumes as much electricity as a dozen

British households combined. So these numbers are growing very quickly.”

Still, it’s difficult to estimate how much power the booming AI industry consumes.

According to the “Tipping Point” website, there are considerable variables in how large AI models operate, and the large technology

companies driving the AI ​​craze do not fully disclose their energy consumption.

However, in his paper, de Vries made a rough estimate based on data published by Nvidia.

The chipmaker holds about 95% of the graphics processor market, according to New Street Research data reported by Consumer

News & Business Channel.

De Vries estimated in the paper that by 2027, the entire AI industry will consume 85 to 134 terawatt hours of electricity per year

(one terawatt hour equals one billion kilowatt hours).

De Vries told the “Tipping Point” website: “By 2027, AI electricity consumption may account for 0.5% of global electricity consumption.

I think that is a quite large number.”

This dwarfs some of the world’s highest electricity consumers. Business Insider’s calculations, based on a report from Consumer

Energy Solutions, show that Samsung uses nearly 23 terawatt hours, and tech giants such as Google use slightly more than 12

terawatt hours, according to Microsoft running data The electricity consumption of the center,

network and user equipment is slightly more than 10 terawatt hours.