{"id":174448,"date":"2025-12-08T23:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/174448\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T23:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:33:10","slug":"ai-reasoning-models-are-even-more-energy-intensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/174448\/","title":{"rendered":"AI reasoning models are even more energy intensive."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posted Dec 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>AI reasoning models are even more energy intensive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-12-04\/the-rise-of-ai-reasoning-models-comes-with-a-big-energy-tradeoff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">used 30 times more electricity on average than other models<\/a> according to research by the AI Energy Score project that included responses to 1,000 written prompts. \u201cWe should be smarter about the way that we use AI &#8230; Choosing the right model for the right task is important,\u201d Hugging Face research scientist Sasha Luccioni tells Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Justine CalmaClose<img alt=\"Justine Calma\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"_1bw37385 x271pn0\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' %3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3C\/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mN8+R8AAtcB6oaHtZcAAAAASUVORK5CYII='\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;)\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Justine_BLURPLE.jpg\"\/>Justine Calma<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x1\">Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.<\/p>\n<p>FollowFollow<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x4\"><a class=\"fv263x5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/authors\/justine-calma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See All by Justine Calma<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AICloseAI<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x1\">Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.<\/p>\n<p>FollowFollow<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x4\"><a class=\"fv263x5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See All AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ClimateCloseClimate<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x1\">Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.<\/p>\n<p>FollowFollow<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x4\"><a class=\"fv263x5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/climate-change\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See All Climate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>EnergyCloseEnergy<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x1\">Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.<\/p>\n<p>FollowFollow<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x4\"><a class=\"fv263x5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/energy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See All Energy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>EnvironmentCloseEnvironment<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x1\">Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.<\/p>\n<p>FollowFollow<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x4\"><a class=\"fv263x5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/environment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See All Environment<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NewsCloseNews<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x1\">Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.<\/p>\n<p>FollowFollow<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x4\"><a class=\"fv263x5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See All News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ScienceCloseScience<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x1\">Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.<\/p>\n<p>FollowFollow<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x4\"><a class=\"fv263x5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/science\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See All Science<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted Dec 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM UTC AI reasoning models are even more energy intensive. 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