Can energy-hungry AI help cut our energy use?

Can energy-hungry AI help cut our energy use?

It takes 10 times more electricity for ChatGPT to respond to a prompt than for Google to carry out a standard search. Still, researchers are struggling to get a grasp on the energy implications of generative artificial intelligence both now and going forward.

New study uncovers alarming effects of AI systems on human health: 'It's a public health issue we need to address urgently'

Artificial intelligence is transforming industries, but a hidden cost is emerging: its pollution footprint could put thousands of lives at risk. A new study warns that AI-driven data centers generate significant air pollution, contributing to long-term health issues across the United States. What's happening? Researchers from the University of California, Riverside and California Institute of Technology have uncovered that AI-driven data centers…

Among the giants of artificial intelligence (AI), the hour of a more muscular discipline seems to have ringed. ...

Europe does not want to be abandoned in terms of AI and promotes the necessary supercomputers. The electricity demand of the data centers is gigantic. A supercomputer in Luxembourg still relies entirely on renewable energy. From C. Feld.

ECB | AI versus green: clash of the transitions? | European American Chamber of Commerce New York [EACCNY] | Your Partner for Transatlantic Business Resources AI versus green: clash of the transitions?

AI adoption requires enormous amounts of electricity. And so does greening the economy. Are the digital and green transitions clashing or can they be successfully achieved together? The ECB Blog takes a closer look. This post is part of a miniseries related to the ECB conference “The Transformative Power of AI”, on 1-2 April 2025, bringing together researchers, practitioners, and policymakers. Learn more here. Two of the biggest economic challe…

Aau/MüllerWith the help of the Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM), one can analyze which devices in a household currently consume electricity without attaching their own measuring instruments to all consumers. Emir Sinanović, University Assistant in the Smart Grids working group at the Institute for Connected and Embedded Systems, now wants to link this analysis with a large-language model that works similar to ChatGPT. "A kettle shows a diffe…