• Honytawk@feddit.nl
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    6 hours ago

    Microwaves are like 1000-1500 watt/h.

    There is no way generating a video is 1.200.000 watt/h when a ChatGPT prompt is only about 0.3 Watt-hours

    Your estimate of 8-17 watt/h may be closer, but still probably overestimates it by a ton.

    This smells like Fuck AI propaganda.

    • GiveOver@feddit.uk
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      5 hours ago

      You’re confusing Watts (power) with Watt-hours (energy). A Watt is a Joule per second. A Watt-hour is the amount of energy you’d use if you used 1 Watt for an hour i.e. 3600 Joules.

      Microwaves use around 1000 watts. If you ran a microwave for an hour, it would use 1000 Watt-hours (aka 1 kilowatt-hour (kWh))