Day: March 11, 2024
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ChatGPT Uses 17,000 times the amount of electricity than the average US household
In this article for The New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert discusses the significant energy consumption of artificial intelligence (AI) systems and their environmental implications. Kolbert interviews Alex de Vries, author of the blog Digiconomist, developer of the Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index, and currently an employee of the Netherlands’ central bank. According to de Vries, the energy…
