AI agents use 5x more tokens than humans as cached prompts explode, headed for 10x — agents are mostly rereading what they've already seen, skyrocketing KV cache demand threatens already-worsening RAM shortages - Tom's Hardware

AI agents consume far more computing resources than human users because they repetitively process the same information, which could worsen existing shortages of computer memory and increase the electricity costs of AI systems. This affects the practical feasibility and expense of deploying AI at scale.