According to the company’s calculations, a text request in the Gemini requires 0.24 W energy, release 0.03 g CO₂ and consumes about 0.26 ml of water – about five drops. For comparison, this is equivalent to nine seconds of TV’s work.
Google claims that its methodology is more accurate than other market players: the calculation contains not only the working time of chips, but also the energy consumption, cooling and data centers of “reserve” systems as a whole.
Interestingly, the published figures were higher than some public assessments, but were lower than he was afraid of critics.
In the last 12 months, the company says that the energy costs have been reduced by 33 times for a request and that the carbon trail has decreased 44 times, although this data has not yet an independent verification.
Google promises to further increase the effectiveness of processing centers and switch to pure energy sources.
Source: Ferra
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