and none of this accounts for training energy, pretraining/data synthesis/augmentation energy, energy consumed by human labor curating the data, and then multiplied by a number > 1 because all of those efforts failed in multiple ways at various times and had to be repeated

It gets even more horrific now that google forces you to use ai.

You can end your searches with “-ai” , but many times Google will simply ignore that and shoehorn AI when you didn’t ask for it anyways.