{"ok":true,"trend":{"id":2047682,"platform":"mastodon","region":"global","key":"llm cost of energy one 5-second ai clip burns more power than an hour of microwaving. mit technology review did the math","title":"LLM cost of Energy One 5-second AI clip burns more power than an hour of microwaving. MIT Technology Review did the math","url":"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@Dendrobatus_Azureus/117430861910788306","first_seen":"2026-10-13T01:09:11.148791Z","last_seen":"2026-10-13T09:36:38.243215Z","last_rank":1,"peak_rank":1,"last_volume":25,"peak_volume":25,"seen_count":8,"score":0.82234375,"category_hint":"energy","section":"technology","category":"ai","summary":"MIT Technology Review has calculated the energy cost of generative AI, finding that producing a single five-second AI video consumes about 3.4 million joules of electricity — roughly as much as running a microwave oven for an hour. The figures are renewing debate about the environmental footprint of AI video generation and the growing power demands of large-scale AI systems.","why":"New concrete numbers on AI's energy use are prompting fresh concern about the environmental cost of generative video.","tone":"mixed","entities":["MIT Technology Review","generative AI","LLMs"],"summarized_at":"2026-10-13T07:11:58.670607Z","meta":{"tag":"energy","via":"scan","kind":"status","lang":"en","instance":"mastodon.social","tag_uses":99},"nw":null,"promo":null,"kind":null,"importance":null,"hidden":false,"hide_reason":null,"judged_at":null,"title_en":"One five-second AI video uses as much power as an hour of microwaving","section_name":"Technology","category_name":"AI","timeline":[],"posts":[{"platform":"mastodon","url":"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@Dendrobatus_Azureus/117430861910788306","author":"Dendrobatus_Azureus@bsd.cafe","title":null,"snippet":"LLM cost of Energy One 5-second AI clip burns more power than an hour of microwaving. MIT Technology Review did the math on AI and energy. Making one five-second AI video took about 3.4 million joules of electricity. One 5-second AI video uses about as much power as running a…","posted_at":"2026-10-13T00:52:31Z","likes":25}],"elsewhere":[],"window":"7d"}}