AI data centres are notoriously power inefficient, with each ChatGPT and Gemini query adding to a person's carbon footprint. OpenAI is now keen to play down the energy requirement. — Photo: Frank Rumpenhorst/dpa
SAN FRANCISCO: A single query to the AI software ChatGPT consumes as much electricity as roughly one second of baking something in an oven, according to the developer OpenAI.
Meanwhile the water consumption from each query – owing to data centres needing to be cooled – comes down to about one-fifteenth of a teaspoon, OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman wrote in a blog post.
