Every time someone types a question into ChatGPT, a small but measurable amount of electricity is burned in distant data centers. The figure for a single prompt sounds tiny, yet at global scale it ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A report released Tuesday by Western Resource Advocates warns of the need to be prepared for the amount of energy and water that data centers demand, especially in the dry interior ...

A new study by the Houston Advanced Research Center cautions that Texas has a 'structural blind spot' when it comes to how ...

Every time ChatGPT is tasked to write an essay or Claude is asked for help with vibe coding, water is being used. How much exactly? Yes, every question you ask AI uses up water—and many are worried. A ...

“People are often curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses,” Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, wrote in an aside in a long blog post last week. The average query, Altman wrote, uses 0.34 ...

A bill awaiting the signature of New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy could reshape the relationship between the state and one of the fastest-growing industries amid the artificial intelligence boom: data ...

Artificial intelligence systems are thirsty, consuming as much as 500 milliliters of water – a single-serving water bottle – for each short conversation a user has with the GPT-3 version of OpenAI’s ...

AI systems require a lot of energy to function, but no one has exact numbers, especially not for individual chatbot queries. To address this, an engineer at Hugging Face built a tool to try to find ...