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AI & Automation

AI’s Energy Crisis: The Trillion-Dollar Power Problem Behind the AI Boom

The Power Problem Is Here The AI revolution runs on electricity, and electricity is running short. Training a single frontier model like GPT-4 consumed an estimated 40 to 50 times the energy of GPT-3 -- itself a 1,287 MWh training run equivalent to powering 120 US households for a year.