As AI models become “smarter,” the environmental cost of using them may be rising. Your carbon footprint may come down to ...

AI chatbots that give long, detailed answers use way more electricity than ones that give short answers - sometimes 50 times ...

Each model generates a certain number of “thinking tokens” per query, and those tokens correlate with CO₂ emissions. When the ...

AI has been oversold, which would not be so bad except for its role in exacerbating our environmental problems.

Utilities are racing to build data centers to meet surging demand for AI and other tech services. Ratepayers will pick up the ...

The power behind AI tools requires massive energy, and global data centers are expected to triple electricity usage by 2030 ...

Asking AI reasoning models questions in areas such as algebra or philosophy caused carbon dioxide emissions to spike ...

Detailed digital maps that IBM built using AI are helping city officials in the developing world forecast growth and energy ...

From Washington to Beijing, leaders are pouring billions into AI but these efforts rest on a fundamental and increasingly ...

AI-powered systems can help manage energy grids, building temperatures and predict weather to store and use energy more ...

Writing on his blog, Altman said, "The average query uses about 0.34 watt-hours, about what an oven would use in a little ...

As AI-powered services become part of daily life, the massive data centers powering them are creating an unprecedented surge ...