There is a lot of noise right now about AI’s energy footprint. Depending on who you ask, it’s either an environmental d…
By Dan Scalco · AI
There is a lot of noise right now about AI’s energy footprint. Depending on who you ask, it’s either an environmental disaster or our best hope for sustainability. I wanted to cut through the panic and look at the facts. Here is the reality: AI “thinking” uses a lot of energy. Generating a single AI response uses significantly more energy than a standard web search (by some estimates, up to 10x more). All that processing creates massive heat, which requires water and electricity to cool down.…