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 ...

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 ...