Key Points
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming a huge electricity guzzler, raising concerns about its environmental impact..
OpenAI's popular generative AI - ChatGPT - alone is estimated to consume over half a million kilowatt-hours daily in order for it to respond to about 200 million user requests daily, reports The New Yorker..
According to calculations by data scientist Alex de Vries, if Google integrated generative AI into every search, it could consume around 29 billion kilowatt-hours annually, surpassing the yearly electricity consumption of entire countries like Kenya, Guatemala, and Croatia...
For instance, Samsung consumes close to 23 terawatt-hours, while tech giants like Google and Microsoft use around 12 and 10 terawatt-hours, respectively, to power their data centers, networks, and user devices...
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