Nature vs. AI: A Power Comparison

Your brain uses less power than a lightbulb while AI needs an entire power plant.

The human brain operates on just twenty watts of energy, roughly the same

as a dim bulb. Meanwhile, training a single large AI model like GPT consumes enough

electricity to power a hundred homes for a year. Even more shocking, running AI data

centers now uses more energy annually than entire countries like Argentina. Despite all that

power, AI still cannot match the efficiency of your brain at creative problem

solving. Nature remains the ultimate optimization engineer.