One cheeseburger has roughly the greenhouse gas emissions of 63,000 Gemini AI text prompts.
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A 2024 University of Wisconsin–Madison paper estimates that "one cheeseburger equates to 1.9 kg of CO₂e emissions". Google’s 2025 research paper reports that "a median Gemini Apps text prompt generates 0.03 gCO2e". That's 1,900 grams of CO₂e emissions per cheeseburger. That’s 0.03 grams of CO₂e emi…
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- 2026-09-11 00:53 · r/artificial
One cheeseburger has roughly the greenhouse gas emissions of 63,000 Gemini AI text prompts.