Altman said the average ChatGPT query "uses about 0.34 watt-hours, about what an oven would use in a little over one second." ...

AI data centres are notoriously power inefficient, with each ChatGPT and Gemini query adding to a person's carbon footprint. OpenAI is now keen to play down the energy requirement. Frank ...

In the race to build smarter, faster, and more capable AI, another competition is playing out quietly in the background: energy efficiency. Each chatbot query may feel weightless when you type it out, ...

The growing energy demands of AI highlight a broader reality about digital technologies: although they often appear invisible ...

OpenAI's latest ChatGPT model, GPT-5, has come under intense scrutiny since its initial launch just a couple of weeks ago. The new model has upset many users with its new reply style, inability to ...

South Korean researchers have found that AI agents consume up to 136.5 times more energy per query than conventional generative AI systems. A research team led ...

ChatGPT’s search queries averaged 5.48 words – and more than three-quarters were five words or longer, a new Nectiv study finds. ChatGPT performs a search in nearly one-third of prompts and averages ...

As researchers scrutinize Big Tech’s utility bills, artificial intelligence has earned a reputation as a thirsty, energy-hungry beast. A single Q&A session with a large language model (LLM) can ...

OpenAI ChatGPT app on App Store website displayed on a screen and OpenAI (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) OpenAI announced today that ChatGPT Search is now available, for free, for ...