AI Agent Energy Consumption: What OpenAI’s 10,000-Agent Swarm Means for Data Center Power
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September 14, 2026
AI agents can run for hours, call tools and launch subagents. OpenAI’s 10,000-agent research run and new IEA and Berkeley Lab data show why agent energy use is becoming a data-center and grid issue.