{"slug": "one-cheeseburger-has-roughly-the-greenhouse-gas-emissions-of-63000-gemini-ai", "title": "One cheeseburger has roughly the greenhouse gas emissions of 63,000 Gemini AI text prompts.", "summary": "A 2024 University of Wisconsin–Madison paper estimating one cheeseburger at 1.9 kg of CO₂e emissions and Google's 2025 research paper reporting a median Gemini Apps text prompt at 0.03 gCO2e imply that a single cheeseburger carries roughly the greenhouse gas emissions of 63,000 Gemini text prompts. The comparison rests on 1,900 grams of CO₂e per cheeseburger against 0.03 grams per prompt, a figure Google published in its 2025 research paper.", "body_md": "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 emis", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/one-cheeseburger-has-roughly-the-greenhouse-gas-emissions-of-63000-gemini-ai", "canonical_source": "https://aiflash.com/news/117446/", "published_at": "2026-09-11 06:00:08+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-11 06:26:57.442692+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "generative-ai", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["Google", "Gemini", "University of Wisconsin–Madison"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/one-cheeseburger-has-roughly-the-greenhouse-gas-emissions-of-63000-gemini-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/one-cheeseburger-has-roughly-the-greenhouse-gas-emissions-of-63000-gemini-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/one-cheeseburger-has-roughly-the-greenhouse-gas-emissions-of-63000-gemini-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/one-cheeseburger-has-roughly-the-greenhouse-gas-emissions-of-63000-gemini-ai.jsonld"}}