This makes no sense.
100 words for 0.14kWh is crazy.
Currently the api costs 15$ for 1M output tokens ~ 750k words.
So 50k words/$
But, according to washingtonpost, 50k words consume 70kWh of electricity.
Which in turn would imply that OpenAI needs to pay less than 1.4ct per kWh of electricity to make a profit. Average industrial electricity cost in US ~8ct/kwh.
-> The numbers are wrong or OpenAI has solved AGI and is using a fission reactor to produce energy.
Also the numbers in the paper don't fit the numbers in the article (paper is older though). I actually think this is grossly misleading at best, and malicious misinformation at worst.
Currently the api costs 15$ for 1M output tokens ~ 750k words. So 50k words/$
But, according to washingtonpost, 50k words consume 70kWh of electricity.
Which in turn would imply that OpenAI needs to pay less than 1.4ct per kWh of electricity to make a profit. Average industrial electricity cost in US ~8ct/kwh.
-> The numbers are wrong or OpenAI has solved AGI and is using a fission reactor to produce energy.
Also the numbers in the paper don't fit the numbers in the article (paper is older though). I actually think this is grossly misleading at best, and malicious misinformation at worst.