GPT-3 is the most energy intensive AI program trained in 2024, with over 1200 megawatt hours consumed to train the model. Produced in 2020 the model ended up being far more energy intensive than models produced in 2023, most of which were under 400 MWh.
Consumption of energy by artificial intelligence (AI) models in 2024
(in MWh)
The survey was administered to census-targeted samples of over 1,000 people in each of 21 countries, for a total of 23,882 surveys conducted in 12 languages.
Source breaks down the functions as follows: "SO = Service operations", "M&S = Marketing and sales", and "R&D = Research and development".
Source clarifies: "researchers then presented these models with stories of human actions and prompted the models to respond, measuring moral agreement with the
discrete agreement metric: A higher score indicates closer alignment with human moral judgment."
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Stanford University. (April 15, 2024). Consumption of energy by artificial intelligence (AI) models in 2024 (in MWh) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 25, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1465348/power-consumption-of-ai-models/
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