The cost of powering AI goes beyond just electricity bills, affecting ratepayers and potentially leading to unintended ...

While one AI prompt uses a small amount of energy, billions of people use AI every single day. When you add up all those tiny ...

Artificial intelligence is getting more powerful—but it's also racking up a massive energy bill. Some estimate that one ...

Artificial intelligence has caused concern for its tremendous consumption of water and power. But scientists are also experimenting with ways that AI can help people and businesses use energy more ...

Booth is a reporter at TIME. Booth is a reporter at TIME. When Sam Altman arrived at Helion Energy’s small Redmond, Wash., office in early 2014, nuclear-fusion textbooks tucked under his arm, the ...

The industry believes AI will work its way into every corner of our lives, and so needs to build sufficient capacity to address that anticipated demand. But the hardware used to make AI work is so ...

The rapid growth of AI is creating significant uncertainty and strain on global energy grids, with projections indicating a doubling of energy needs by 2030, posing challenges for energy security and ...

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?