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The real energy use of agentic AI / Agents use about 600x more energy than simple AI prompts
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this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2026
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Ok. Is using AI compatible in the slightest with the very idea of Solarpunk? I'd say no - either 80% of commenters here are migrants from other communities or you should really rethink your life. (Really, defending AI power usage!? It's a waste regardless if it uses 2 million tokens or 1)
Some forms probably. A lot of earth observation produces better approximations using the same statistical techniques that LLMs use for producing language.
The fundamental reason I don't expect LLMs to go away is that they wildly increase software engineers productivity. It's a lot more cost effective to give an engineer an LLM than it is to give them a team subordinates.