Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone
Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone
This is the first time the carbon emissions caused by using an AI model for different tasks have been calculated.
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Wait so then does playing a game that maxes out my GPU for two hours use enough power to charge 1000 smartphones?
Because that's a lot.
A high(er) end smartphone has a battery capacity of approx. 0.019kWh (5000mAh), a gtx3080 has a max power draw of 320W so running that (at max load) for two hours is 0.64kWh, which is equivalent to fully charging ~34 smartphones.
Thanks for actually doing the math.
So the headline must be false, since you can generate a lot more than 34 generative AI images on a 3080 in 2 hours. That's if you just include inference though.
I wonder if they are somehow trying to factor in the training costs.