Kashish Madan

Everything wild and untamed

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Just Indian Skimmers casually chilling in their safe Chambal habitat as seen last week

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Read more at https://t.co/XaPPno467v

[Kashish Madan @madmadan_]

There is something slightly embarrassing about spring in Delhi.
Not because it is loud or spectacular. It is neither. Delhi’s spring does not arrive like a festival. It slips in quietly, almost apologetically, between the severity of winter and the tyranny of summer.

[āshish @AshishXL]

What is the sense in wasting lakhs of rupees on tulip flowers in Delhi when they don't even survive the first week of March here? Why don't you invest in indigenous plants for greenery in the city?

@gupta_rekha @LtGovDelhi

[𝖢𝖺𝗍𝖺𝗅𝖾𝗒𝖺 @catale7a]

Dear Indians,

"Data Centers" are not a proud thing to celebrate, but it's the American Big Tech treating India as a DUMPING YARD

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

A human consumes about 2,000 calories per day. Over 20 years, that’s roughly 17,000 kWh of total food energy. Training GPT-4 consumed an estimated 50 GWh of electricity. That’s 3,000 humans worth of “training energy” for a single model run.

And GPT-4 is already dead. OpenAI retired GPT-4o from ChatGPT on February 13th. The model that took 50 GWh to train got less than two years of flagship status before replacement. The human you spent 17,000 kWh “training” for 20 years produces economic output for the next 40 to 60 years. The amortization window on GPT-4 was shorter than a car lease.

Now look at what replaced it. GPT-5.2, released December 2025, is OpenAI’s current default. The GPT-5 series consumes an estimated 18 Wh per average query according to the University of Rhode Island’s AI Lab, up to 40 Wh for extended reasoning. That’s 8.6 times more electricity per response than GPT-4. With 2.5 billion queries hitting ChatGPT daily and GPT-5.2 now the default model, the inference math gets staggering fast. Even at a blended average well below 18 Wh, you’re looking at daily electricity consumption that could power over a million American households.

This is what Altman is actually doing. OpenAI hit $13 billion in annual recurring revenue but still isn’t profitable. They need you to think of AI energy consumption as natural and inevitable, the same way you think about feeding a child, because the alternative framing is that they’re burning through enough electricity to rival small countries while racing to build 1-gigawatt Stargate data centers. The food analogy makes the energy costs feel biological and unavoidable instead of what they are: an engineering and business choice that scales with every model generation.

The comparison sounds clever at a fireside chat in India. It falls apart the second you do the arithmetic.

[Kashish Madan @madmadan_]

@juarbe_lui @queenmavka Where did you the shelf from?

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@jedjopplin @chonkychihuahua Not one cool suggestion. Had to come out of my lurker persona 👀

[Kashish Madan @madmadan_]

If this is how you treat customers during a medical crisis, people deserve to know.
This lack of accountability and transparency is unacceptable. Please respond immediately. I shouldn’t have to escalate publicly just to get basic answers.
@CareHealthIndia @jagograhakjago

[Kashish Madan @madmadan_]

@CareHealthIndia
Honestly shocked at how you’re handling my claim. I submitted the doctor’s admission note and asked for a proper review of my denied claim, and you have gone completely silent.

@policybazaar @PBHelpDesk

[asabi @uxtobiaf]

I too want to write an end of year essay or make a reel or even find the most meaningful photos to mark the year but all I can think is, “I’m so tired.”

[Bharati Chaturvedi @Bharati09]

Delhi floods will get worse every year unless we join hands to gutsily make the basic changes.

1. Relocate every built structure on the river bed that is less than 25 years old. Including the Commonwealth Games Village and Metro infra. Find the space. Floodplains are to absorb water, prevent floods and keep the city running even in monsoon season. Don’t real-estatize spaces that offer environmental services.

1/n

[Kashish Madan @madmadan_]

My posts haven’t been delivered from Hikkim yet, so thinking to send my photos from the Spiti trip as a postcard. DM if you want one. However, this one won’t be coming from the world’s highest post office.

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Thank you @ViCustomerCare for first changing my postpaid plan without informing me and now suspending my 12 year old phone number when you cc team could not resolve the issue. Sheer abuse of power.

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@sumitdookia Thank you Sir!

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Glad to share the White Paper analyzing the business case for investing in Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) in India is out. Investment into Natural Climate Solutions in India https://t.co/q5UDhuG5jp via @wef

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@simranrambles I have stopped asking this question! 😬

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@shrutisah27 This worked. I just created my profile :D

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@di_shawarma God damn! I want to be part of this so bad! 🥹😅

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@darthdevi Was this suggested by a general physician or some specialist? Asking for myself lol

[Kashish Madan @madmadan_]

Who is writing these relocation permits!!