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Is AI destroying the planet? We redid the math, with sources
A ChatGPT query supposedly consumes as much as a Google search, yet the alarmist figures from 2023 still circulate. We redid the calculation for real usage — 40 queries a day for a year — with RTE 2025 data and official figures. The result mostly depends on one variable: where the server runs.
July 4, 20264 min
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