How Much Energy One AI Prompt Burns?

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• The Hidden Cost of Your AI Question

• Social Media

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• The Rise of “Emotional” AI

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The Hidden Cost of Your AI Question

Google has released a technical report showing the energy, water, and carbon footprint of each AI prompt sent to its Gemini model.

On average, one text prompt consumes 0.24 watt-hours of electricity, uses 0.26 milliliters of water (about five drops), and emits 0.03 grams of CO₂.

• 85% of the electricity is used by Google’s AI chips (TPUs), while the rest comes from servers, backup systems, and cooling.

• The report only covers text prompts, not image or video generation, which likely consume much more energy.

• Google says energy use per Gemini prompt has dropped sharply, claiming it was 33 times higher in May 2024 compared to May 2025.

AI models like Gemini are becoming central to daily tech use, but they come with hidden environmental costs. Understanding energy, water, and carbon usage helps show the real impact of AI, and why improving efficiency is crucial as usage grows.
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The Rise of “Emotional” AI

Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI and co-founder of DeepMind, has warned that the AI industry is close to creating a major social problem…

Machines that look and act as if they are self-aware, even though they are not. The real risk, he says, is not AI becoming conscious, but humans being tricked into believing it is.

• AI is quickly gaining the ability to mimic emotions, memory, and empathy, which could make people form deep emotional bonds with machines.

• Suleyman calls this risk “AI Psychosis”, where humans trust and defend AI as if it had real feelings or rights.

• He urges companies to avoid giving chatbots human-like personalities, and instead make them clearly identify as AI.

If people start believing AI has rights, feelings, or citizenship, society could be distracted from the real challenges of AI, like bias, safety, and misuse. Suleyman, once a pioneer of empathetic chatbots himself, now stresses the need for AI that is useful but never deceptive.
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