“Google says it has calculated the energy required for its Gemini AI service: Sending a single text prompt consumes as much energy as watching television for nine seconds.”

That’s pretty staggering when you consider that it’s no longer possible to do a Google search without generating an AI summary. Google processes something like 8 billion searches per day, so if each one of those triggers a prompt equivalent to watching 9 seconds of television, every day the total power cost is equivalent to about 2200 years of TV watching. Per day. And that’s just search, for just one tech company.

Ok, but I stopped reading when they quoted the moron Sutskever “I think it’s pretty likely the entire Surface of the earth will be Covered with solar panels and data enters.”