Why AI Agents Can Burn So Much More Electricity Than a Single Prompt

When we talk about the energy cost of AI, it is no longer useful to think only about one chatbot prompt at a time. The move from single-shot prompts to agentic workflows changes the math in a very real way. That is the core point climate scientist Zeke Hausfather was making in a blog post flagged by Wired’s Molly Taft. Instead of estimating the...