AI agents’ energy use

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

the average agent requests burned about 348 watt hours

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

increases in data center energy consumption and supply chain emissions

data centers were using way poor water than before to stay cool

these things take hundreds of thousands of computers running at full bore

anything that they can do to introduce any extra efficiencies