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The surge in generative artificial intelligence (AI) is being met with growing fears about the technology’s ecological footprint, one of the top questions up for discussion at a global summit in Paris on February 10-11.Here are some key figures on the state of play in early 2025:
Ten times Google‘s power
Every request made to OpenAI‘s chatbot, which is able to generate all kinds of responses to natural-language queries, consumes 2.9 watt-hours of electricity.
That is ten times more than the equivalent figure for a Google search, according to the…
