Sam Altman penned a new essay about AI where he explained exactly how much energy and water a ChatGPT chat uses.

There has been all manner of speculation on how much electricity ChatGPT consumes, but the company has now come out with an ...

"The average query uses about 0.34 watt-hours, about what an oven would use in a little over one second, or a high-efficiency ...

AI, like ChatGPT, incurs significant hidden environmental costs in energy and water. Despite minimal individual query usage, ...

ANDhHu9g3g — Sam Altman (@sama) June 10, 2025 Amid rising concerns about the energy and water consumption of AI systems, Sam ...

Altman said the average ChatGPT query "uses about 0.34 watt-hours, about what an oven would use in a little over one second." ...

A single query to the AI software ChatGPT consumes as much electricity as roughly one second of baking something in an oven, ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reveals ChatGPT’s low per-query water and energy use. Here's how much resources a query consumes.

Altman further elaborated on ChatGPT’s energy consumption, revealing that an average query consumes about 0.34 watt-hours of ...

“The average query uses about 0.34 watt-hours,” Altman said in a blog post titled The Gentle Singularity. “It also uses about ...

Does a ChatGPT prompt use a bottle of water? We break down all your AI energy and sustainability questions, complete with ...

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