Proprietary providers such as OpenAI and Anthropic publish almost no official figure for energy or water per query. There are two exceptions: Google, which measured a median Gemini query in production (0.24 Wh), and Mistral, which published a complete life cycle assessment with Carbone 4 and ADEME. For everything else we depend on independent benchmarks such as How Hungry is AI? or Hugging Face's AI Energy Score, which is why we give ranges throughout.
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