The cost of powering AI goes beyond just electricity bills, affecting ratepayers and potentially leading to unintended ...

“People are often curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses,” Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, wrote in an aside in a long blog post last week. The average query, Altman wrote, uses 0.34 ...

While one AI prompt uses a small amount of energy, billions of people use AI every single day. When you add up all those tiny ...

A chatbot might not break a sweat every time you ask it to make your shopping list or come up with its best dad jokes. But over time, the planet might. As generative AI such as large language models ...

The energy consumption of the newest version of ChatGPT is significantly higher than previous models, with estimates suggesting it could be up to 20 times more energy-intensive than the first version.

AI investment is driving up energy demands and impacting local grids. AI energy use must be considered relative to tech's energy demands overall. Businesses and individuals have several options for ...

There they were. Golden boxes, louder than a toddler on a red-eye, hotter than a campfire in a heat wave, pricier than a private Caribbean island.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has offered new insight into the environmental footprint of AI tools like ChatGPT. In a recent blog post, he claimed that an average ChatGPT query uses just 0.000085 gallons of ...

Modern-day smart televisions may be leagues ahead of the boxy rabbit-eared contraptions of yesteryear, but even the best smart TVs out there still require electricity to operate. But with all of their ...