Posted Dec 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM UTC
AI reasoning models are even more energy intensive.
They used 30 times more electricity on average than other models according to research by the AI Energy Score project that included responses to 1,000 written prompts. “We should be smarter about the way that we use AI … Choosing the right model for the right task is important,” Hugging Face research scientist Sasha Luccioni tells Bloomberg.
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