New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Will the coming GPT revolution require significantly more energy?

Ask HN: Will the coming GPT revolution require significantly more energy?
5 by beepbooptheory | 7 comments on Hacker News.
Just something I am thinking about, wondering if we can even know. If we completely replaced and/or augmented, e.g., web search with GPT(-like) models, would there be substantially more energy needed in order to sustain this? (Or less, or about the same?)

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