How much energy is needed to generate an image? 🎨🧠⚡️
Up to 4.08 Wh — like charging your phone to 40%!
In our new study we tested 17 models & 9,000+ runs.

Other key finds:
⚡️ Model energy use varies up to 46x
📐 Resolution matters, prompts don't
🛠️ Quantization ≠ savings

📄 Preprint: lnkd.in/dKWWAETW

Thank you @shubhendu.bsky.social (one of the authors here)!

If you have any doubt or questions on the research don't hesitate to reach out 🙂

@robertoverdecchia.bsky.social presenting “Energy-Aware Software Testing” at #ICSE2025 @icseconf.bsky.social

He is referring to my paper “An Inconvenient Truth in Software Engineering? The Environmental Impact of Testing Open Source Java Projects”, see azaidman.github.io/publications...

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Very interesting indeed, thank you for sharing!

Software testing consumes ever-increasing resources. GenAI may only exacerbate the issue.

What can we do about it?

In our new @icseconf.bsky.social NIER paper we present "Energy-Aware Software Testing", with both broad strategies and a PoC algorithm.

📄: robertoverdecchia.github.io/papers/ICSE_...

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