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Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret

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First-of-its-kind US bill would address the environmental costs of the technology, but there’s a long way to go.

Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret

one assessment suggests that ChatGPT, the chatbot created by OpenAI in San Francisco, California, is already consuming the energy of 33,000 homes. It’s estimated that a search driven by generative AI uses four to five times the energy of a conventional web search. Within years, large AI systems are likely to need as much energy as entire nations.

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Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret
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