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AI's Dirty Secret: It’s Eating Power Like Crazy ⚡️

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June 22, 2025

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We a​ll love ChatGPT and those wild AI image generators. But h​ere’s the question no one’s asking loudly enough:

👉 How much electricity does AI really burn?

Turns out, a LOT more than you think. From data centers pulling city-level power to language models that suck up gigawatt-hours just to train, the AI boom has a s​erious energy hangover.

🔥 Key jolts to your brain:

  • GPT-3 training = 100,000 homes powered for 10 hours

  • AI may use 20​% of global electricity by 2035

  • Inference (just chatting with AI) adds up to terawatt hours yearly

  • Each ChatGPT convo emits 4.32g of CO2

Even the U.S. grid is sweating. And if you think it’s just the servers—think again. Cooling eats up nearly half the energy in AI data centers.

🔌 So what’s being done about it?

Companies are racing to build low-power chips, optimize models, and shift to renewables. But AI is scaling faster than solutions can catch up.

See you in the data stream,

The AI News Team

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