Is it possible to measure how much energy, water and emissions are used to power your AI searches? Can you trust an academic report from Google? And why is the US Department of Defense getting into a row with Dario Amodei's Anthropic

Further reading:

https://arxiv.org/html/2508.15734v1

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Presenters: Professor David Reid and Stephanie Power

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Music and additional material: Matt Power

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