New research on how hungry is GenAI:
‘Even a 0.42 Wh short query, when scaled to 700M queries/day, aggregates to annual electricity comparable to 35,000 U.S. homes, evaporative freshwater equal to the annual drink-
ing needs of 1.2M people, and carbon emissions requiring a Chicago-sized forest to offset.
https://arxiv.org/html/2505.09598v5
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