Asking an artificial intelligence chatbot questions uses up to 10 times as much energy as an internet search, going by recent reports by Goldman Sachs and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). Bots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT need 2.9 watt-hours to answer a request, compared with the 0.3 used when typing a query in Google Search, according to the EPRI, potentially placing huge pressure on electricity supplies around the world as AI use expands. Echoing recent projections made by the International Energy Agency, the EPRI said the numbers mean the already-high power demands of internet data…