What It Will Take to Make AI Sustainable

# AI's Hidden Cost: We Don't Actually Know How Much Energy It Uses Training and running AI systems consumes significant electricity, but companies rarely share detailed information about what that actually costs the planet. Researcher Sasha Luccioni says we need two things to fix this: companies should be transparent about their AI's energy use, and we should better understand how people are actually using these tools in the real world—since an AI system running idle wastes energy just like a light left on in an empty room.