Amid growing concerns about the environmental impact of artificial intelligence, Google says it has calculated the energy required for its Gemini AI service: Sending a single text prompt consumes as much energy as watching television for nine seconds.

The tech giant on Thursday unveiled a new methodology to measure the environmental impact of its AI models , including energy and water consumption as well as carbon emissions.

AI tools have the potential to drive economic growth by boosting productivity and unlocking other efficiencies, economists say. By one estimate from Goldman Sachs, the tech is poised to increase global GDP by 7%, or $7 trillion, over 10 years. At the same time, scientists are flagging the outsized environmental impact of AI, which is not yet fully understood even

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