In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses

Re:In a first, Google has released data on how much energy a... by timmg on Thursday August 21, 2025 @11:07AM (#44973726)

If I'm doing the math right, you can get ~4000 queries per kWh. A quick Google search gave $0.04 per kWh when bought in bulk. So you can get around 100k queries per dollar of electricity.

That's.... a lot cheaper than I would have guessed. Obviously, the data centers cost quite a bit to build. But when you think of $20/mo for a typical subscription. That's not bad?

Did I do that right?

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Re:In a first, Google has released data on how much energy a... by jeffbee on Thursday August 21, 2025 @11:36AM (#44974100)

Yes, you did.

The fundamental flaw in AI energy/water doomerism has always been that energy costs money, water costs money, real estate costs money, but AI is being given away for free. There is obviously something wrong with the suggestion that AI is using all the energy and water.

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Re:In a first, Google has released data on how much energy a... by prism56 on Thursday August 21, 2025 @12:27PM (#44974692)

But what about the training cost?

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Re:In a first, Google has released data on how much energy a... by timmg on Thursday August 21, 2025 @04:54PM (#44977969)

It would be interesting to know how many queries they get per "base" model. I honestly have no idea what the scale is. In any case, that's the only way to know how to amortize training cost over inference.

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