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I was skeptical about the climate costs of Google pushing a 4Gb AI model to every copy of Chrome, but this article is more careful and reasonable than I expected: https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/ Specifically: - It's not the normal "AI inference costs energy" talking point. It's purely about the cost of _transferring_ the model. - It argues that the problem is the forced mass push. - It boils down to 240GWh of energy, or 72K homes' yearly energy use.