AI Wants to Eat the Grid: Will Humanity Feed It or Fry First?
The Quiet Emergency Behind the AI BoomEveryone is excited about AI breaking records, writing code, designing new medicines, and maybe even thinking like us. But there is one big problem growing behind all of this: electricity. For example, training GPT-3 used 1,287 megawatt-hours of energy—enough to power 100,000 homes. Every time someone asks ChatGPT a question, it uses about five times more electricity than a … Continue reading AI Wants to Eat the Grid: Will Humanity Feed It or Fry First?