There may be electricity crisis due to AI, ChatGPT is consuming electricity equal to 17 thousand houses every hour – Dainik Savera Times

Mumbai: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being used every day in many countries of the world. Many of you may also be using AI tools like ChatGPT, but you will be surprised to know that these AI tools can someday become the cause of power crisis all over the world. There is electricity crisis in many countries of the world and this crisis increases significantly during the summer season. Even in India, we often have to face problems regarding electricity. According to a report, OpenAI’s famous AI chattool ChatGPT alone is consuming 5,000 kilowatts of electricity every hour.

This consumption is happening only on the daily requests of 200 million users and if the number of requests increases then the consumption can also increase. If averaged out, ChatGPT is consuming 17 thousand times more electricity per day than the average American home. If the use of generative AI increases further, energy consumption may also increase further. According to data scientist Alex de Vries, if Google incorporated generative AI into every search, it could consume about 29 billion kilowatt-hours annually, which would exceed the annual electricity consumption of entire countries like Kenya, Guatemala and Croatia. Will do.

De Vries stressed the energy consumption of AI, saying that it has already been revealed that each AI server is already consuming the same amount of electricity as more than a dozen UK homes, although big tech companies have Estimating the total power consumption of the AI ​​world is challenging due to lack of transparency. Vries estimates, based on data from AI chip maker Nvidia, that the entire AI sector could use between 85 and 134 terawatt-hours annually by 2027. This will represent a significant share of global electricity consumption, potentially reaching half a percent by 2027.