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- ChatGPT uses more than half a million kilowatt-hours of electricity daily, The New Yorker reported.
- In comparison, the average US household uses just 29 kilowatt-hours.
- Estimating how much electricity the booming AI industry consumes is tough to pin down.
AI is using up a ton of electricity.
OpenAI's buzzy chatbot, ChatGPT, is probably using up more than half a million kilowatt-hours of electricity to respond to some 200 million requests a day, according to The New Yorker.