Google Addresses the Environmental Impact of AI Prompts
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Google claims its Gemini AI prompts use only a minimal amount of water and energy, but experts criticize these estimates as misleading because they omit indirect water and energy consumption, and use potentially skewed metrics, thus providing an incomplete picture of AI's environmental impact.
- Google says a typical AI text prompt only uses 5 drops of water — experts say that’s misleading The Verge
- Google shares how much energy is used for new Gemini AI prompts Axios
- What's the environmental cost of an AI text prompt? Google says it has an answer. CBS News
- Google Wants You to Know the Environmental Cost of Quizzing Its AI The Wall Street Journal
- Google wants to make AI’s energy footprint a ‘non-consideration,’ but it’s not there yet yahoo.com
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