Overview

• Google reports median figures per Gemini text request of 0.24 Wh electricity, 0.26 ml water and 0.03 g CO₂-equivalent.
• The company issued a detailed measurement methodology that counts chip utilization, memory, idle capacity and data-center cooling, which it proposes as an industry standard.
• Google says median energy per text request fell about 33× over the past year and the CO₂ footprint about 44×.
• The disclosure excludes image and video requests and does not include the energy required to train the models.
• Comparisons highlight differing scopes, with OpenAI citing about 0.34 Wh per query and researchers and agencies warning of rising overall electricity and water demand for AI data centers.