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

Sam Altman reveals how a ChatGPT query leverages 0.34 watt-hours of electricity and 0.000085 gallons of water, ...

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 has revealed ChatGPT's energy usage for a single prompt, and while it's lower than you might expect, ...

"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, ...

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

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

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

There was a debate going on Chat GPT'S effects on the climate, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, said that people shouldn't be ...

Some of these are small improvements I hope will arrive soon. Others are bigger, bolder, and more wish-list than expected roadmap. But all of them would make ChatGPT not just more helpful, they’d ...

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