AI Web Agents Need an Energy Label

Kari Jaaskelainen

07 Nov 2025 — 1 min read

AI web agents can browse sites, fill forms, and compare prices for you—from OpenAI’s Operator to Google’s Project Mariner. But how green are they?

The study estimates and benchmarks the energy and CO2 cost of web agents.
Design choices (like model size and browsing strategy) can swing energy use widely.
More compute does not automatically mean better results.
Lack of transparency (undisclosed model details) blocks accurate energy estimates.
Benchmarks should report energy-per-task and CO2-per-task, like a miles-per-gallon for AI.

Takeaway: we need transparency and energy labels for agents, not just accuracy scores.

Read the research: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04481v1

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04481v1

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