Inspired by another post.
Quick sources.
According to Google, a single search requires about 0.0003 kWh of energy.
https://www.rwdigital.ca/blog/how-much-energy-do-google-search-and-chatgpt-use/
Each ChatGPT query consumes an estimated 2.9 Wh of electricity...
Edit: I'm an idiot for not even considering conversions. I simply pasted the numbers from the sources. Apologies.
0.0003 kWh is 0.3 Wh, and 2.9 Wh is 0.0029 kWh.
I think the regular search is effectively one-tenth a chatgpt prompt.
...according to a simple calculator, and a lot of commenters who've now accidentally made this funnier.
I'm not an electrician.
Okay, after some more rabbling, here's some edits. Take your pick:
The unit bullshittery going on in this meme is frying my brain. I need a nap.
If I can stay awake long enough maybe I can work out how this works. My PC burns around 500Wh under load, so the time I just spent playing Abyssus was burning about 3 GPT searches a minute, by that estimation. It's still much less than 30, and I can probably figure whatever I'm looking for in much less than that, but still.
I wonder if it's supposed to be better or worse if I decide to burn all that at home by running a local LLM. I don't think my GPU is more power efficient than their data centers, and it'd almost certainly run longer than 20 seconds, but I do have pretty green power sources in this area and it is air cooled.
I guess it depends on whether my office gets hot enough to make me turn on the AC.