Every time someone types a question into ChatGPT, a small but measurable amount of electricity is burned in distant data centers. The figure for a single prompt sounds tiny, yet at global scale it ...

“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 ...

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 ...

AI systems require a lot of energy to function, but no one has exact numbers, especially not for individual chatbot queries. To address this, an engineer at Hugging Face built a tool to try to find ...

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The energy consumption of artificial intelligence is a big topic at the moment, partly because the top AI firms have announced some large-scale plans to power their future endeavours. Meta and Google ...