---
title: "How much energy does AI use compared to humans? Surprising study ignites controversy"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-much-energy-does-ai-use-compared-to-humans-surprising-study-ignites-controversy-1hufyoxu1
source_url: https://venturebeat.com/ai/how-much-energy-does-ai-use-compared-to-humans-surprising-study-ignites-controversy/
type: article
source: "Venture Beat"
published: 2023-09-22T15:11:06.324Z
updated: 2024-01-27T02:17:01.421Z
tags: ["ai", "business", "chatgpt", "content-creation", "llm", "llmops", "midjourney", "mit", "nlp", "openai", "proof-of-work"]
reading_time: 6
upvotes: 2
comments: 0
language: en
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# How much energy does AI use compared to humans? Surprising study ignites controversy

**[Venture Beat](https://daily.dev/sources/venturebeat)** · 6 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Scientists from the University of California-Irvine and MIT published a paper earlier this year on the open access site arXiv.org that shakes up energy use assumptions of generative AI models. When producing a page of text, an AI system such as ChatGPT emits 130 to 1500 times fewer carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e) compared to a human.

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