KAIST researchers put the first hard number on AI agent energy cost. A 70B-parameter agent uses 136.5x the energy of a c...

KAIST researchers put the first hard number on AI agent energy cost. A 70B-parameter agent uses 136.5x the energy of a chatbot query, with GPUs idle 54.5 percent of execution time. At agent scale, projected data center demand reaches 198.9 gigawatts, equivalent to half of US power. The AI race is shifting from model benchmarks to data center efficiency. https://go.aintelligencehub.com/ma-kaistagentenergy2026 #AI #AIAgents #Infrastructure #Energy

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