i suspect that this is a wild underestimate, both ignoring the costs in developing the model and ignoring the fact that many questions may w…

i suspect that this is a wild underestimate, both ignoring the costs in developing the model and ignoring the fact that many questions may well have been posed that didn’t succeed. If this is true, using the best public estimates we have of LLM resource use, solving this Erdos problem took 0.6–6.3 kWh of electricity and about 3–31 liters of water. So that is less than three almonds worth of water and the electricity equivalent of 2-20 miles of EV driving.

Source: Gary Marcus (X) | 2026-05-22