From a heavy user of AI: "If we assume that these 8 weeks are fairly typical, we can estimate that a full year of my agentic Claude Code use would consume roughly 1.1 MWh of data center electricity (0.4 to 2.2 MWh), which is about a tenth of what an average US household uses."
@globalecoguy.bsky.socialThis is a really good overview of the energy costs of using AI by @zekehausfather.com
www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-real-e...
theclimatebrink.com
The real energy use of agentic AI
Agents use about 600x more energy than simple AI prompts