While one AI prompt uses a small amount of energy, billions of people use AI every single day. When you add up all those tiny ...

It’s estimated it can take an AI model over 6,000 joules of energy to generate a single text response. By comparison, your brain needs just 20 joules every second to keep you alive and cognitive. That ...

Every time someone types a question into ChatGPT, a small but measurable amount of electricity is burned in distant data centers. The figure for a single prompt sounds tiny, yet at global scale it ...

The cost of powering AI goes beyond just electricity bills, affecting ratepayers and potentially leading to unintended ...

The aroma of hay and manure hangs over Culpeper County, Virginia, where there’s a cow for every three humans. “We’ve got big farms, most still family-owned, and a lot of forests,” says Sarah Parmelee, ...

We walk here, we walk there, we walk everywhere. Maybe you’re headed to work or to lunch in a busy city. You’re expending energy, and the exercise is good for you. But what if, on top of that, we ...