Ketan JoshiOpenAI doesn't report a single number for its climate impacts - not anywhere, in any way, shape or form.
It sounds kind of obvious but the fact that a company with such incredible electricity hunger isn't disclosing basic information about its energy consumption and associated emissions is v bad..
....and it kind of shows up the intense hypocrisy and shallow cynicism of companies that do deals with Open AI like Microsoft, who flout their sustainability credentials at every opportunity, but don't consider it a dealbreaker that OpenAI feels no need to share basic information about its impacts
"Each task consumed approximately 1,785 kWh of energy—about the same amount of electricity an average U.S. household uses in two months"
This is one per-task estimate from Salesforce's head of sustainability -->>
www.linkedin.com/posts/bgamaz...
Waldo Jaquith@krusynth This is very silly. This is for a "task" that costs $3,400 and requires 2,267 GPU hours to complete. This a bit like saying that the emissions of 5 full tanks of gas go into a drive from Shockoe Bottom to The Fan, leaving out the trip is in an Abrams tank. It's not wrong, but it doesn't really give us any useful knowledge.