Satya Nadella says Microsoft could lose “social permission” to burn electricity for AI unless it offers something useful — “That, to me, is ultimately the goal”

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that each response from ChatGPT uses a small amount of energy – 0.34 watt-hours. To put that in perspective, it’s roughly the same energy an oven uses in just over a second, or a high-efficiency lightbulb uses in a few minutes.








