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The Hidden Power Bill of Artificial Intelligence with MIT's Vijay Gadepally
Vijay Gadepally joins Ed and Sara to break down the real energy footprint of AI—and why most people (and companies) are getting it wrong.
They discuss:
How "agentic" AI systems use an order of magnitude more energy than ChatGPT.
Whether efficiency gains can keep pace with exploding usage (spoiler: not yet).
The one simple change that could cut AI energy use by 80%.
Vijay is Senior Scientist at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center and Co-Founder of Bay Compute and Radium Cloud. He studies what's actually happening under the hood of AI systems—and has the data to back it up. If…
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