https://curiouscoding.nl/tags/fermi-estimate/Recent content in Fermi-Estimate on CuriousCodingHugoenWed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200https://curiouscoding.nl/posts/energy-usage-of-navier-stokes/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200https://curiouscoding.nl/posts/energy-usage-of-navier-stokes/<div class="ox-hugo-toc toc"> <div class="heading">Table of Contents</div> <ul> <li><a href="#input-data" >Input data</a></li> <li><a href="#electricity-cost-and-coal-usage" >Electricity cost and coal usage</a></li> <li><a href="#energy-to-gpus" >Energy to GPUs</a></li> <li><a href="#agents-per-gpu" >Agents per GPU</a></li> <li><a href="#tokens-per-second" >Tokens per second</a></li> <li><a href="#extrapolating" >Extrapolating</a></li> <li><a href="#putting-things-in-perspective" >Putting things in perspective</a></li> <li><a href="#conclusion" >Conclusion</a></li> </ul> </div> <!--endtoc--> <p>As they<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup> say,</p> <blockquote> <p>a mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.</p> </blockquote> <p>These days, we can extend this into</p> <blockquote> <p>an LLM is a machine for turning energy into theorems.</p> </blockquote> <p>Indeed, let&rsquo;s find out how much coal OpenAI<sup id="fnref:2"><a href="#fn:2" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">2</a></sup> turned into a proof<sup id="fnref:3"><a href="#fn:3" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">3</a></sup> of Navier Stokes.</p>