AI models such as ChatGPT consume serious power. Experts break down where that energy goes, and what you can do to help.

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For some tasks, using AI might actually generate less CO2 than doing it yourself, according to Bill Tomlinson, a professor of informatics at the University of California at Irvine.

All those prompts come with an environmental cost: A report last year from the Energy Department found AI could help increase the portion of the nation's electricity supply consumed by data ...

Each model generates a certain number of “thinking tokens” per query, and those tokens correlate with CO₂ emissions. When the researchers compared the responses, they found that more complex ...