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jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
For reference, this roughly equivalent to playing a PS5 game for 4 minutes (their estimate) to 10 minutes (their upper bound)
calulation
source www.ecoenergygeek.com/ps5-power-consumption/ PS5 standard usage: 200 watts ± 100; call it 200 W TV: 27 watts - 134 watts → call it 60 W URI’s estimate: 18 Wh / 260 W → 4 minutes URI’s upper bound: 48 / 260 W →10 minutes
buttnugget@lemmy.world 1 week ago
bier@feddit.nl 1 week ago
It is also the equivalent of letting a LED light bulb run for an entire day (depending on bright it is, some LED bulbs use under 2 watts of power).
MangoCats@feddit.it 1 week ago
I was just thinking, in more affordable electric regions of the US that’s about $5 worth of electricity. You’d tip a concierge $5 for most answers you get from Chat GPT (if they could provide them…) and the concierge is likely going to use that $5 to buy a gallon and a half of gasoline, which generates a whole lot more CO2 than the nuclear / hydro / solar mixed electrical generation, in reasonably priced electric regions of the US…
jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
That doesn’t seem right. By my calculations it should be like 5¢.
MangoCats@feddit.it 1 week ago
Depends on your electric rates, of course. The gotcha in this statement is “per thousand requests” which cranks up the power usage from 40 watt-hours to 40 kilowatt hours. Say you’ve got “affordable” electricity at 12.5 cents per kilowatt hour: 40 * .125 = 5.