🔗 Ketan Joshi analysed Google's latest sustainability report, and yes, energy consumption went up (a lot).

Adding up the numbers, Joshi concludes it's not because of manual Gemini use, it's because Google's search engine shows AI results by default https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/googles-exponential-path-to-climate-wrecking-digital-bloat/