The Digital Insider

Artificial intelligence's rapid growth has led to advancements like autonomous vehicles, virtual reality, and ChatGPT. But AI technologies and training AI models require a lot of energy, increasing concerns about the environmental impact of AI and its sustainability. To put AI's energy usage into perspective, it took nine days to train one of OpenAI's early model chatbots, MegatronLM. According to TechTarget, during those nine days, 27,648 kilowatt hours of energy was used. That's about the same amount of energy used by three U.S. homes over the course of an entire year.