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ChatGPT's daily electricity consumption equals that of 17,000 average US household

According to a report by The New Yorker, OpenAI's chatbot, ChatGPT, uses up more than half a million kilowatt-hours of electricity to respond to some 200 million requests a day. The consequences can become even more concerning if big tech companies like Google use generative AI in every search. It could lead to using as much electricity as whole countries like Kenya, Guatemala, and Croatia do in a year, as per the report.