AI models such as ChatGPT consume serious power. Experts break down where that energy goes, and what you can do to help.

We can create just about anything in a matter of seconds thanks to generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI). It's fun to ...

Does a ChatGPT prompt use a bottle of water? We break down all your AI energy and sustainability questions, complete with tips on how to use AI as responsibly as possible.

A growing body of research attempts to put a number on energy use and AI—even as the companies behind the most popular models keep their carbon emissions a secret.

According to Lim, AI models consume so much energy because of the vast amount of data that the model is trained on, the complexity of the model, and the volume of requests made to the AI by users.

Sasha Luccioni, a lead climate researcher at the AI company Hugging Face, spoke to Vox and explained, "Data centers need a lot of energy to run, especially the hyperscale ones that AI tends to run on.

People are often curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses; the average query uses about 0.34 watt-hours, about what an oven would use in a little over one second, or a high-efficiency ...

From blockchain to AI models, environmental effects need to be measured. In an interview with VentureBeat, the authors of the paper, ... We don’t know how much energy it’s using.

AI and data storage use a lot of energy, posing an increasing threat to the planet. The energy needed to support data storage is expected to double by 2026. You can do something to stop it.

How much electricity does AI consume? It’s not easy to calculate the watts and joules that go into a single Balenciaga pope. But we’re not completely in the dark about the true energy cost of AI.

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 ...

What really happens after you hit “enter” on that AI prompt? WSJ’s Joanna Stern heads inside a data center to trace the journey and then grills up some steaks to show just how much energy it ...