Chatbots sure are thirsty, you're listening to Motley Full Money. I'm Ricky Mulvey joined today by Osset Sharma.

Osset, how's your weekend?

It was long and not long enough.

Aren't all weekends like that, Ricky.

I really like getting topic suggestions from listeners, giving us something to talk about on the show and one of our listeners

Pervine wrote into us recommending that we chat about the massive power demand and grid strain that's coming from these AI companies.

And this is apropos since last week Jensen Wong and Sam Altman met senior White House officials to discuss infrastructure needs for AI projects.

And Assad, that means POWA.

Setting the table, just so we get a baseline understanding,

is that according to a Goldman Sachs report,

a chat sheet BT query needs 10X the amount of electricity

that a Google search does.

First question, Osset, why are these AI systems so thirsty?

Hey Ricky, first I want to say that I used much less energy

to answer this question than you probably did because I think you told me you consulted

chat TPT on this question so you generated some energy. Think about a Google search when you or I type something into that Google search bar.

We're basically, yeah, we're using some computation, we're sending some algorithms into action,

but basically what we're doing is consulting this index of knowledge.

And while that's a little power hungry, it's nothing like the experience of you asking

Chappetia questions.

So what's going on there?

We've all heard that large language models

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