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The real energy use of agentic AI / Agents use about 600x more energy than simple AI prompts (www.theclimatebrink.com)
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[-] rimu@piefed.social 5 points 5 days ago

The human brain uses 20 watts of power.

There's no way using AI (easily 1000 watts, many thousands of watts if using multiple agents in a swarm like Claude does) to make yourself 20% more efficient results in less energy per task done.

Ask your chatbot about it if you want to be sure.

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