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…

https://balkangreenenergynews.com/chatgpt-consumes-enough-power-in-one-year-to-charge-over-three-million-electric-cars/

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:

  • djmikeale@feddit.dk
    10·
    1 day ago

    I look up recipes a lot, would love to know the actual cost of visiting a site, given all of the JavaScript and cookies, tracking, images etc that has to be loaded, that I don’t really care about

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
      2·
      23 hours ago

      I use it to help figure out the order to cook things like stir frys with whatever ingredients I happen to have, which is an improvement over my previous “just throw it all in and stop when I feel like it’s time to eat then wonder why the meat is so tough”.

      It also helped me figure out that I’ve been steaming food instead of frying it for a long time. Though my cooking got a lot messier when I corrected that and I went from never burning anything to occasionally burning some things.