NMAIResearch/bot-energy-bound

How Much Electricity Does Bot Web Traffic Actually Use? A transparent order-of-magnitude bound on the electricity used by bot web traffic, and an account of why no single honest figure exists in public data. Two independent methods land on an order of roughly 10 TWh per year while disagreeing by about 5.3 times, and the work corrects a widely-cited figure downward by roughly 15 to 20 times. Every input is published with the parameter set and a script that regenerates the bound.… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/NMAIResearch/bot-energy-bound.