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Agents/The Decoder/August 8, 2026 at 9:44 AM

AI agents use roughly 600 times more energy than a simple chat prompt

Climate scientist Zeke Hausfather tracked his Claude Code usage over eight weeks: 3.2 billion tokens and about 170 kWh of data center electricity. Per prompt, that's roughly 600 times more than a typical AI chat. His data shows how much the low figures reported by Google and OpenAI distort the reality of agent-based AI. The article AI agents use roughly 600 times more energy than a simple chat prompt appeared first on The Decoder .

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