Why Do AI Chatbots Use so Much Energy?

Why do AI chatbots use so much energy?

AI chatbots are infamous energy guzzlers. But why do they use so much electricity?

Google Clarified How Much Energy AI Requests Require

The growing popularity of AI systems for both personal and institutional use has prompted plenty of debates over the ethics involved, from copyright issues to AI’s effect on misinformation. There’s another issue on the table that’s also led to plenty of intense moral debates: specifically, the impact that requests to AI systems have on the environment. Whether someone is asking for information or a generated image or video, that involves process…