It’s big: We did the math on #AI’s energy footprint | MIT Tech Review

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It’s big: We did the math on #AI’s energy footprint | MIT Tech Review

“ChatGPT is now estimated to be the fifth-most visited website in the world, just after Instagram and ahead of X.

In December, #OpenAI reported #ChatGPT receives 1 billion messages every day, and after the company launched a new image generator in March, it said that people were using it to generate 78 million images per day.”

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

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