minus-squareSteve Dice@sh.itjust.workstoTechnology@lemmy.world•ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·20 hours ago The team measured GPT-5’s power consumption by combining two key factors: how long the model took to respond to a given request, and the estimated average power draw of the hardware [they believe is] running it. linkfedilink