Are AI Energy Concerns Overblown?

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence is leading to a significant increase in energy consumption by data centers, raising concerns about the strain on global power grids and the ability to meet this growing demand.

Your politeness could be costly for OpenAI

“I wonder how much money OpenAI has lost in electricity costs from people saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to their models.” It was a seemingly random question posed by a user on X (formerly Twitter), but OpenAI CEO Sam Altman jumped in to reply that typing those words has added up to “tens of millions […]