Topic

AI agents’ energy use

3 mentions in 2 episodes

Also known as AI energy use

The hosts discuss research estimating that AI agent requests can consume substantially more energy than ordinary chatbot queries.

Mentions

754: Frankly Asinine Questions

  • 28:06

    AI agents can use up to 136 times more energy than a normal chatbot query

  • 28:47

    the average agent requests burned about 348 watt hours

730: Ethical Broads

  • 25:52

    social permission to take something like energy, which is a scarce resource, and use it to generate these tokens