TechTakes

An average phone is around 12 Wh. 100 times that is 1.2 kWh. Which is like $0.20 over here. You can easily use up 1.2kWh anywhere else on equally trivial shit.

Also you heard wrong. ChatGPT uses around 2.5 Wh of energy per query. Which is less than 10x of a google query. And 1/6 that of an iPhone charge.

Edit: ChatGPT has 60 mil queries per day, when google search has 8500 million. Both are tools for searching knowledge that collectively use a lot of energy. But you usually don't look at collective usage - otherwise you get the result that drying your hair shouldn't be done - 10 mins of usage is 200W (assuming 1200W dryer), almost 17 iPhone charges. Times that by lets say 40% of the population each day, and you get ridiculous numbers too.