Google is publishing research into Gemini’s AI Environmental Footprint

Google has released a report that shares the environmental footprint of Gemini, using a single text prompt about five drops of water or 0.26 millimeters. The report also stated that a text prompt for their AI-Chatbot uses the same amount of electricity as watching TV for less than 9 seconds or approximately 0.24 watts (WH), which produces approximately 0.03 grams of carbon dioxide emissions.

“For a period of 12 months, although it provides higher quality reactions, the median energy consumption and CO2 footprint per Gemini Apps text promptly decreases with 33x and 44x,” Ben Gomes, chief technologist of learning and sustainability in a blog post respectively.

The company has claimed that the estimates are much lower than older research due to this efficiency.

The author of those of the articles quoted by Google, however, responded to the study that said that the comparisons made were misleading and that the information in the report was incomplete.

“While Google chose to consider its most recent 2025-all-on-site water, it used us * highest 2023 total number between the 18 locations * to create a misleading comparison, apparently suggesting that the earlier estimates were far away from reality and that Gemini is much more efficient, the Watersis of ours, the comparison of the comparison of the comparison of the comparison, the comparison of the comparison, the comparison of the Easaite onsite, the comparison of the Litaite, the comparison of the Litus of the Litus of the Like Litine,” comparison, “comparison,” comparing Onsite, “comparing Onsite,” comparing Onsite, “comparing on usite. Water base, the water-based water, Water B Wijsen from 18 OUTS-3 in 8025 results, the water in our paper is lower than the reported worldwide average of Google for Gemini, “he wrote in a message on LinkedIn.

Google had omitted indirect water consumption in their estimates compared to Ren’s paper, including “Onsite Water for cooling, offsite water for electricity generation and the total,” he noticed.