Google's AI Overviews must create entirely new information in response to a search query. That costs an estimated *30 times* more energy than simply extracting information from a source through a traditional search. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/what... by @parshallison.bsky.social
Cars, fossil fuel power plants, planes, agriculture, and industrial processes strongly dominate the carbon budget of the world, which we are blowing through like nobody's business. Maybe save some wrath for the things that are actually destroying the planet?
References: IPCC reports 1 through 6.
