My question regrettably left out an unstated extrapolation I was inferring... what happens when we all "just google-ai it" when we're bored?

Of course I don't think the energy usage of your individual questions is an issue. I also appreciate your data gathering and reporting of it. I didn't mean to come across as critical of your personal use of AI to gather and report this data.

Again, it's the collective effects I'm more worried about. I'm hoping that, collectively, we're all gaining some value from the growing energy expenditures required to obtain it: https://apnews.com/article/climate-google-environmental-repo...