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SecretDreamstoday at 4:47 PM0 repliesview on HN

Order of operations:

1) I click your link

2) I click the link associated with the 0.3 Wh of energy claim in the section "The full cost of a prompt".

3) The link from 2) takes me to a blog post from Hannah Ritchie. In Hannah's post, I click a link associated with the following excerpt:

"Third, as a result, more recent estimates suggested that the assumptions I relied on (h/t to Andy Masley’s work on this) — that one standard query used 3 watt-hours (Wh) of electricity — were possibly an order of magnitude too high. In this case, I was happy to be conservative and overestimate the energy use."

4) This link takes me to the author of your original post, but earlier.

None of this quantifies cost per token, which is really the much more relevant metric than whatever a "cost per text based query" means => which I think is both quite broad and quite model dependent.