ChatGPT uses more than half a million kilowatt-hours of electricity daily, The New Yorker reported. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. The publication reported that the average US household uses around 29 kilowatt-hours daily. Dividing the amount of electricity that ChatGPT uses per day by the amount used by the average household shows that ChatGPT uses more than 17 thousand times the amount of electricity. "You're talking about AI electricity consumption potentially being half a percent of global electricity consumption by 2027," de Vries told The Verge.

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