Guwahati, June 11 -- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has disclosed new details about the environmental footprint of ChatGPT, revealing that each query consumes about 0.34 watt-hours of electricity and approximately 0.000085 gallons of water, roughly equivalent to one-fifteenth of a teaspoon.

In a blog post titled The Gentle Singularity, Altman compared the energy use of a single query to "an oven running for just over one second" or "a high-efficiency lightbulb glowing for a couple of minutes." The figures offer one of the most specific public insights to date into the resource demands of OpenAI's artificial intelligence systems.

The data shows significantly lower consumption than some earlier estimates. A 2023 report by The Washington Post had s...