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Re:Addressing AI’s energy cost by ben_w on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @07:48AM (#31665946)
Assuming the energy costs $60 per megawatt hour and that OpenAI isn’t making a loss on their “Davinci” tier, that’s 3-7 entire Bibles of output for the $ cost of the cheapest economy seats on the cheapest London to New York flights I found for the rest of this year, or (Edit: I first claimed 25 million) 1.5 billion [0] tokens per flight, using the previously estimated energy cost per 10 hour flight.

Their “Ada” tier is 75 times cheaper, with corresponding upper-bounds assumptions if they are not making a loss.

[0] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=1500+MWh+*+%2460%2FMWh+...

Re:Addressing AI’s energy cost by wyre on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @12:37PM (#31669939)
Without a carbon tax comparing the price of two massively energy consuming entities doesn’t mean much of anything in regards to our climate crisis.
Re:Addressing AI’s energy cost by ben_w on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @03:46PM (#31672987)
From the point of view of climate change, the fact that data centres are often and increasingly carbon neutral (because that’s the cheapest source of electricity, no carbon tax needed) while jet fuel isn’t usually derived from biofuel means there’s a significant possibility, albeit not a certainty, of a divide by zero error.