Published on February 23, 2026 at 14:00 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0 Generative artificial intelligence consumes as much electricity as a small country. For Sam Altman, the creator of ChatGPT and founder of OpenAI, critics must also take into account all the energy required to 'train' a human brain. Determined to defend the energy footprint of AI, he didn't hesitate to compare his chatbot's consumption to that of a human being. Altman even poi