So Sam Altman said the other day that humans also use energy.
I looked up a human's energy use. It appears to be about seven mega joules per day. I ran that through a converter into kilowatt hours and that's about 1.9 KW hours or 1900 watt hours per day.
An average household uses about 30 kW hours per day.
Google says a standard LLM query is about 0.3 watt hours https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/21/1122288/google-gemini-ai-energy/. (I note that it would have every reason to lowball this number.)
So we each represent 6300 queries 🤣
Jonathan
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