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@jonippolito@digipres.club
2025-11-01 12:33:05

Google has teased 60-second AI videos from Veo, which sounds impressive until you realize that requires not 10x, but 100x the energy of a 6-second clip.
Analysis confirming quadratic scaling of AI video footprint: linkedin.com/posts/jonipp…

News headline from Techradar about rumored minute-long AI videos coming from Veo 3.1

New research reveals shocking energy use of AI video | Jon Ippolito posted on the topic | LinkedIn
I've updated the What Uses More calculator with new research this week that makes the environmental footprint of AI video potentially far higher than I thought. On Tuesday Julien Delavande, Régis Pierrard, and Dr. Sasha Luccioni published important research showing that doubling the duration of a video generated from a text prompt doesn't just double the energy required, but in fact quadruples it. So if a 3-second clip uses 130 watt-hours (the equivalent of running a light bulb for two hou…