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Think before AI. Please consider the cost before asking a machine to summarise or generate.

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That is the point.

The banner at the bottom of their email is a quiet nudge. Before you ask a model to summarise a page or write a reply, it is worth a second of thought, because each request uses real energy and water, and a billion of them add up.

You can read the figures, all of them cited, on the main page.

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