power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than โ€” research institute estimates medium-sized response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity
University of Rhode Island's AI lab estimates that GPT-5 averages just over 18 Wh per query, so putting all of 's reported 2.5B requests a day through the model could see energy usage as high as 45GWh equivalent of two to three nuclear power reactors, enough to power a small country.
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