AIFast Company Techabout 3 hours ago
Agentic AI prompts use 600x more energy
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Climate scientist Zeke Hausfather tracked 1,138 Claude Code prompts over eight weeks this summer. His median agentic AI prompt consumed roughly 150 kilowatt-hours, about 600 times more than a typical chatbot query. AI data centers could consume 12% of U.S. electricity by 2030.
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