@gerrymcgovern
AI Chatbots are not the problem, if we're talking about energy use/effects on the climate.
10x a Google search is still an extremely small amount (as in 3mins of light bulb small!), and the 10x figure is also quite outdated (we're approaching 1x recently it seems)
The real AI-electricity offenders are apparently ad/recommender systems etc. and industrial applications.
I can recommend this post for a detailed discussion:
https://andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sheet-for-conversations-about