The Electric: AI Chatbots Get a Boost From a Sodium-Ion Battery

China's CATL displays a sodium-ion battery at a Beijing exposition in December. Photo: Li He/Xinhua/Getty

Artificial intelligence chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini consume several times as much power as an ordinary Google search, and the insatiable tech companies are demanding yet more from them at a scale that can overwhelm the grid.