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Post #4401711
2026-08-06 01:29 UTC
'…electricity per AI task spans more than five orders of magnitude, from thousandths of a watt-hour for text classification to 50-500 Wh for an agentic workflow making 5-50 frontier model calls. As they put it, emissions attributed to one “interaction” may understate the compute actually consumed “by an order of magnitude or more.”'
https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-real-energy-use-of-agentic-ai
#ClimateCrisis
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@vmbrasseur@social.vmbrasseur.com 2026-08-06 01:32
" Bai et al. (2026) measured coding agents on real software tasks and found they consume roughly 1,000 times the tokens of an ordinary chatbot interaction. And these sort of agents tasks represent the most rapid driver of increased AI usage; Anthropic’s Economic Index found that 97% of their API usage now show “automation-dominant” patterns associated with agents." #ClimateCrisis