But the figures rely on hardware and usage assumptions that may be inaccurate.

The University of Rhode Island’s AI lab estimates that GPT-5 averages just over 18 Wh per query, so putting all of ChatGPT’s reported 2.5 billion requests a day through the model could see energy usage as high as 45 GWh.

A daily energy use of 45 GWh is enormous. A typical modern nuclear power plant produces between 1 and 1.6 GW of electricity per reactor per hour, so data centers running OpenAI’s GPT-5 at 18 Wh per query could require the power equivalent of two to three nuclear power reactors, an amount that could be enough to power a small country.

  • ckmnstr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    16 hours ago

    Response Type is decided by ChatGPTs new routing function based on your input. So yeah. Asking it to “think long and hard”, which I have seen people advocating for to get better results recently, will trigger the thinking model and waste more resources.

    • towerful@programming.devEnglish
      6·
      15 hours ago

      So instead of just saying “thank you” I now have to say “think long and hard about how much this means to me”?

      • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        FFS, I have been using Claude to code, not only do you have to tell Claude to fix compilation errors, you have to point out when Claude says “it’s fixed” - “no, it’s not, the function you said you added is STILL missing.”

      • ckmnstr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 hours ago

        If you want it to really use a lot of energy on receiving your gratitude, sure I guess^^