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title: "Timing Trick Cuts Energy Used in LLM Training by Up to 14 Percent — Stuff That Spins"
description: "OpenAI’s fourth large language model (LLM), GPT-4, took an estimated 50 gigawatt-hours to train, or the equivalent of 5,000 American homes’ yearly power consumption. That was in 2023. Since then, the computational resources used to train frontier LLMs have only increased, though direct power usage …"
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# Timing Trick Cuts Energy Used in LLM Training by Up to 14 Percent

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**Published:** June 10, 2026  
**Original:** https://spectrum.ieee.org/llm-training-energy-saving-trick  

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