the company Hugging Face, which works on open-source models, calculated that one of its models (a 175-billion-parameter network named BLOOM), during an eighteen-day period, consumed, on average, about 1,664 watts. Compare that to the 20 to 50 watts our brains use, despite our having about 86 billion neurons and about 100 trillion connections, or parameters. On the face of it, it’s no comparison, really.
