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A US resident consumes 76 MWh per year [0], so 1.52 GWh over 20 years. A single model can be trained once and used by millions. Therefore LLMs are ~10000x more energy efficient than humans.

https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption#per...



Your numbers are about how much is used also for transport etc. Sam's number were about what the human body itself uses for training, hence why I used the caloric consumption.




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