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Intelligent Utility
Kinsey Grant Baker
Kinsey Grant Baker
Energy Central Team
·Posted in Intelligent Utility
Thu, Aug 21

NEWS: Google shares how much energy is used for new Gemini AI prompts

How much energy does AI really use? Google has the answer. (Axios)

  • The median energy use of a single text prompt on Google’s Gemini is equivalent to watching TV for less than nine seconds. It consumes about five drops of water, researchers found.

  • The trend: More efficient software and clean energy have lowered the median energy consumption it takes to prompt Gemini by 33x over the last year.

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