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Explainers
The units, boundaries and jargon behind every AI footprint number, in plain words.
How much electricity does one AI prompt really use?
Google measured 0.24 Wh for a median Gemini prompt; OpenAI says 0.34 Wh for ChatGPT. Here is what those numbers include, what they leave out, and why a long document can cost a hundred times more.
Why two honest water numbers can differ 170 times
Google says a prompt uses 0.26 mL of water. Mistral says a response uses 45 mL. Neither is wrong. They draw the boundary in different places, and the boundary is the whole story.