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ChatGPT requests reportedly use 10x more electricity than Google searches. (via TIME)

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fork found in kitchen. I thought we all knew this but hopefully now people stop using it like a damn search engine like it’s really not that hard to just google shit

I get it but Google also stopped giving good sources as initial responses. Anytime you google something, the first 20 things you see are ads or AI which is some times incorrect. And people hate going to page 2 to find what they’re looking for.

The data center is in San Antonio, I looked up the breakdown of how their electricity is sourced and it’s 40% coal, 32% nuclear, 16% gas, and 7% renewable. That being said, the water it uses to cool it and the pollution output is the real problem.

curious if this is with or without generative ai turned on on google also 10x energy of google is still not that much energy im pretty sure, since i'd assume a search engine is pretty power efficient, but i could be wrong