The Chancery Lane Project has released an open-source WordPress plugin called Markdown for Agents that serves simplified Markdown versions of webpages to AI agents, stripping out unnecessary scripts and layout code. This approach significantly reduces data transfer—by about 80% per page—and token usage for AI processing, potentially saving billions of gigabytes and cutting energy consumption equivalent to powering the entire USA for 24 hours annually if widely adopted across WordPress sites.
This Free WordPress Tool Could Save Businesses Billions Every Year by Slashing the AI Tokens Needed to Read the Web — Saving Enough Electricity to Power the Entire USA for 24 Hours
