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Google's AI-powered search summaries use 10x more energy than a standard Google search | The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI (jacobin.com)

submitted 5 months ago by ForgottenFlux to c/technology

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[–] DarkCloud 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If these guys gave a shit they'd focus on light based chips, which are in very early stages, but will save a lot of power.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm surprised it's only 10x. Running a prompt though a llm takes quite a bit of energy, so I guess even the regular searches take more energy than I thought.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Same. I think I've read that a single GPT-4 instance runs on a 128 GPU cluster, and ChatGPT can still take something like 30s to finish a long response. A H100 GPU has a TDP of 700w. Hard to believe that uses only 10x more energy than a search that takes milliseconds.

[–] Lyricism6055 5 points 5 months ago

I switched to Kagi like 6 months ago and I still love it. Almost never have to go back to google except for maps.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I wonder what the power consumption of getting to the information in the summary is as a whole when using a regular search, clicking on multiple links, finding the right information and extracting the relevant parts. Including the expenditures of energy by the human performing the task and everything that surrounds the activity.

There are real concerns surrounding AI, I wonder if this is truly one of them or if it’s just poorly researched ragebait.

[–] TheFeatureCreature 4 points 5 months ago

All of this just to give rich shareholders even more money.

[–] brlemworld 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I would point out that Google has been "carbon neutral" with it's data centers for quite some time, unlike others who still rape the environment ahem AWS.