Artificial intelligence is changing the world, but it’s coming at a heavy cost. Training and using AI models requires power – lots of power, which is taking an increasing toll on the national infrastructure, the cost of operations and the environment. Just one request on ChatGPT requires almost ten times more electricity than a Google search, and the AI service has a daily power consumption roughly equal to 180,000 U.S. households. Furthermore, a single ChatGPT conversation uses almost 17 ounces of water – a little more than a standard bottle of drinking water… and that’s just one AI model in …
