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The process is ludicrously energy intensive, with experts estimating that the industry could soon suck up as much electricity as an entire country.

Unperturbed, billionaires including Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel and Bill Gates have poured substantial amounts of money into the idea.

However, while the emergent crop of startups like Helion has repeatedly claimed that fusion energy is right around the corner, we have yet to see any concrete results.

Of course, if Altman's rosy vision of the future of energy production were to turn into a reality, we'd have a considerably greener way to power these AI models.

According to an October paper published in the journal Joule, adding generative AI to Google Search alone balloons its energy uses by more than tenfold.

"Let’s not make a new model to improve only its accuracy and speed," University of Florence assistant professor Roberto Verdecchia told the New York Times.

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