Many years ago, I heard a Google search (without any “AI”) required the same amount of energy required to raise 100 ml of water from room temperature to boiling temperature. That’s ~33 kJ per search. 700 million searches per week is roughly 38 megawatts (around 40 percent of the world’s largest solar farm; or around 30 average sized solar farms)

We can safely assume this AI stuff requires a lot(!) more…