Ledger changelog
Every claim added to the ledger and every change since, with the previous figure and its date whenever a figure changes. Also as an RSS feed.
- Average ChatGPT query, per OpenAI's chief executive Added.
- An email with a long attachment, How Bad Are Bananas? (2010) Added.
- A long laptop-to-laptop email (10 minutes to write, 3 to read) Added.
- A proper (non-spam) email, How Bad Are Bananas? (2010) Added.
- A spam email, How Bad Are Bananas? (2010) Added.
- Google search including the user's PC, John Buckley's estimate in The Sunday Times Added.
- One hour of video-on-demand streaming, European average in 2020 Added.
- AnimateDiff video at default settings, Video Killed the Energy Budget Added.
- WAN2.1-T2V-14B video at default settings, Video Killed the Energy Budget Added.
- ChatGPT request in early 2023, from SemiAnalysis via de Vries Added.
- Typical ChatGPT query on GPT-4o, Epoch AI estimate Added.
- ChatGPT request, EPRI Powering Intelligence Added.
- Google search with 15 minutes of computer use, Chris Goodall's estimate in The Sunday Times Added.
- Median Gemini Apps text prompt, comprehensive boundary Added.
- Median Gemini Apps text prompt, active accelerators only Added.
- Average Google search, Google's 2009 figure Added.
- ChatGPT request, IEA Electricity 2024 Added.
- Typical Google search, as stated by the IEA in Electricity 2024 Added.
- One hour of streaming video, 2019 global average (IEA revised estimate) Added.
- Long DeepSeek-R1 query on DeepSeek's own servers, How Hungry is AI? benchmark Added.
- Short GPT-4o query, How Hungry is AI? benchmark Added.
- Streaming Netflix in 2019, Kamiya's original February 2020 estimate Added.
- GPT-3 water for 10 to 50 medium-length responses, Making AI Less Thirsty Added.
- Least efficient open image generation model, Power Hungry Processing Added.
- Mean image generation across open text-to-image models, Power Hungry Processing Added.
- Text generation inference, Power Hungry Processing Added.
- Frontier-scale model query on H100 nodes, Microsoft researchers' estimate Added.
- Le Chat 400-token response, Mistral life-cycle analysis Added.
- Five-second CogVideoX video at 16 frames per second (MIT Technology Review) Added.
- Older CogVideoX video at 8 frames per second (MIT Technology Review) Added.
- Llama 3.1 405B text response, MIT Technology Review analysis Added.
- Llama 3.1 8B text response, MIT Technology Review analysis Added.
- Stable Diffusion 3 Medium 1024 × 1024 image, GPU energy only (MIT Technology Review) Added.
- Stable Diffusion 3 Medium 1024 × 1024 image, estimated total energy (MIT Technology Review) Added.
- Stable Diffusion 3 Medium image at 50 diffusion steps (MIT Technology Review) Added.
- One-hour Teams call with the camera off, over 4G (network data only) Added.
- One-hour Teams call with the camera on, over 4G (network data only) Added.
- One hour of Netflix streaming worldwide, "well below 100 gCO2e" Added.
- One email, 1 g CO2e (OVO Energy "Think Before You Thank") Added.
- One hour of videoconferencing or streaming, Purdue/Yale/MIT study Added.
- Half-hour show, 1.6 kg CO2e (Shift Project figure as reported by AFP) Added.
- One hour of online video, The Shift Project after its bitrate correction Added.
- Typical Google search, as reported by The Sunday Times ("two searches boil a kettle") Added.
- Median web page view as of July 2023, Website Carbon Calculator Added.
- Average web page view, Website Carbon Calculator (Sustainable Web Design Model v4) Added.
- One second of visiting a typical website, Alex Wissner-Gross's figure Added.