AI power and water use is through the roof, and 80–90% is per query
pivot-to-ai.com
There’s been a lot of discourse lately from AI boosters making excuses for AI’s ghastly power consumption. The reason you’re seeing these excuses now is because even the mainstream media is writing…
  • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systemsEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I had been using a CSS rule to hide the AI overviews on Google.

    Because of this news I just installed a Firefox extension to force Google search results to use the “web” tab (which presumably skips generating them entirely).