Comment by sxp

Since a human uses ~100W of power, the .24Watt-hours of energy for an AI prompt is about 40human-seconds [Edit: 9human-seconds] of energy.

And unlike the human who spent multiple hours writing that article, an LLM would have linked to the original study: https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/measuring_the_envi...

[ETA] Extending on these numbers a bit, a mean human uses 1.25KW of power (Kardashev Level .7 / 8 Gigahumans) and the mean American uses ~8KW of power according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_co.... So if we align AIs to be eco-friendly, they will definitely murder all humans for the sake of the planet /s