Have you ever noticed a creeping increase in your monthly electricity bill? It can be challenging to pin down the cause, because there are a number of devices (some of which you wouldn't expect), that ...

The energy needed for one AI image varies greatly, from around 0.1 kWh for simpler models to over 2.0 kWh for advanced ones.

Every time someone uses ChatGPT to write an essay, create an image or advise them on planning their day, the environment pays a price. A query on the chatbot that uses artificial intelligence is ...

Inference also consumes a lot of energy. This is where an AI chatbot draws a conclusion from what it has learned and ...

“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 ...