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While power demand typically peaks in the summer, this year’s cooler summer and drier monsoon delayed it to 1 September. But due to the late rains last month, electricity use dropped 7.8% since August for the biggest month-on-month drop in a year.
AI has emerged as a rapidly growing digital trend over the past 12 months and if its adoption becomes more widespread, it could potentially use as much energy as entire countries.
Alex de Vries, a researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, authored 'The Growing Energy Footprint of Artificial Intelligence,' which examines the environmental impact of AI systems.
The rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) holds the promise of making our lives more efficient and convenient, but a recent commentary in the journal Joule warns that this innovation comes at an energy cost that could rival that of entire nations.
AI chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard consume an astronomical amount of power and water. Massive data centers are required to respond to prompts from millions of users across the globe. And according to the latest estimates, the trend is bound to continue, with energy demands ballooning. In a recent analysis published in the […]