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.
that’s a lot. remember to add “-noai” to your google searches.
I’m just going to ignore the AI recommendations, let them burn money.
i don’t judge you for that. honestly it matters fuck all at this point
Or just use any other better search like Bing or duckduckgo. googol sucks and was never any good. Quit pushing ignorant garbage.
duckduckgo yes, but … bing?
Ha! Kids these days.
This is my weekly time to tell lemmings about Kagi, the search engine that does not shove LLM in your face (but still lets you use it when you explicitly want it) and that you pay for with your money, not your data.