Episode

The Hidden Power Bill of Artificial Intelligence with MIT's Vijay Gadepally

Podcast
Energy vs Climate: How climate is changing our energy systems
Published
Mar 5, 2026
Duration seconds
3196
Processing state
not_requested
Canonical source
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1850047/episodes/18794444-the-hidden-power-bill-of-artificial-intelligence-with-mit-s-vijay-gadepally.mp3
Audio
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1850047/episodes/18794444-the-hidden-power-bill-of-artificial-intelligence-with-mit-s-vijay-gadepally.mp3
JSON
/v1/public/podcasts/energy-vs-climate-how-climate-is-changing-our-energy-systems-2990266/episodes/the-hidden-power-bill-of-artificial-intelligence-with-mit-s-vijay-gadepally
Markdown
/podcast/energy-vs-climate-how-climate-is-changing-our-energy-systems-2990266/the-hidden-power-bill-of-artificial-intelligence-with-mit-s-vijay-gadepally.md

Actions

  • POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/energy-vs-climate-how-climate-is-changing-our-energy-systems-2990266/episodes/the-hidden-power-bill-of-artificial-intelligence-with-mit-s-vijay-gadepally/transcription-requests
    Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
  • GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/energy-vs-climate-how-climate-is-changing-our-energy-systems-2990266/the-hidden-power-bill-of-artificial-intelligence-with-mit-s-vijay-gadepally.md
    Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

Summary

Vijay Gadepally joins Ed and Sara to break down the real energy footprint of AI—and why most people (and companies) are getting it wrong. They discuss: How "agentic" AI systems use an order of magnitude more energy than ChatGPT.Whether efficiency gains can keep pace with exploding usage (spoiler: not yet). The one simple change that could cut AI energy use by 80%. Vijay is Senior Scientist at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center and Co-Founder of Bay Compute ...