“Google on Thursday [8/21/25] unveiled measurements of energy, water use and emissions from text prompts using its Gemini Apps AI assistant…

What they found: The median energy use of a single text prompt on Gemini is equivalent to watching TV for less than nine seconds and consumes about five drops of water, the paper finds.

• It emits 0.03 grams of carbon dioxide equivalent, Google said.
• Better software efficiency and clean energy have lowered the median energy consumption of a Gemini Apps text prompt by 33x over the last year, and the CO2 by 44x, the company said.”

From Axios.