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 emissions per Gemini text prompt.
1,900 ÷ 0.03 ≈ 63,000 prompts.
I'm just sharing this as a reality check. You could prompt Gemini every day 150 times a day for a year and it still wouldn't equal one cheeseburger.
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