Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/01/1084189/making-an-image-with-generative-ai-uses-as-much-energy-as-charging-your-phone/

by annabyrd • 3 years ago

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Baldbvrhunter3• 3 years ago

The actual paper [0] says approx 4860 joules per image, so 70 images is the same as boiling a litre of water.

Charging a phone takes 20k joules.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.16863.pdf

dragonwriter2• 3 years ago

The actual paper [0] says approx 4860 joules per image, so 70 images is the same as boiling a litre of water.

And even that's high, judging by how fast I can generate images with normal settings on my local PC with SDXL and my computers power supply capacity.

Baldbvrhunter3• 3 years ago

We ran all of our experiments on a single NVIDIA A100-SXM4-80GB GPU hosted on Amazon Web Services and used the Code Carbon package to measure both the energy consumed and the carbon emitted during inference.
[on] (AWS’s us-west-2), which is based in Oregon and has an average carbon intensity of 297.6 grams of 2eq per kWh3.

The A100 can consume 700W

jqpabc123• 3 years ago

The AI industry was hoping you wouldn't notice the exorbitant energy requirements until after this hype cycle had peaked.

Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone

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