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Power Hungry Processing (Luccioni et al. 2024)

ACM FAccT 2024 paper by Luccioni, Jernite, and Strubell that benchmarked inference-time energy use across 88 models and 10 task types. Found that energy per request varies by more than four orders of magnitude, with general-purpose generative models typically far more costly than task-specific fine-tuned models.

Energy Cost Per LLM Query

Current best estimates put the electricity cost of a standard ChatGPT-class text query at roughly 0.3 to 3 watt-hours, versus about 0.3 Wh for a Google search. Early 2023-2024 figures (de Vries, EPRI, IEA) clustered near the high end at ~2.9 Wh, while 2025 measurements from Epoch AI, OpenAI, and Google converged at 0.24-0.34 Wh as hardware and models improved. Variation by task type and reasoning depth can still span two orders of magnitude.

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