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Why AI Agents Can Burn So Much More Electricity Than a Single Prompt
Community description: When we talk about the energy cost of AI, it is no longer useful to think only about one chatbot...
Dev.to | Sep 16, 2026 | Noah Kenji
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Instead of estimating the electricity behind one response, he tried to estimate what happens when an AI assistant keeps working through a task, step by step, over and over again. The context keeps growing, and the system keeps paying the computational cost of carrying that context forward. It is the repeated processing of growing context as the agent moves through commands, files, and tools.
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