Show HN: LLMs consume 5.4x less mobile energy than ad-supported web search

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The standard AI energy debate compares server-side LLM inference to a server-side Google query. I think this misses most of what actually happens on a mobile device during a real search session.<p>I built a parametric model of the full end-to-end mobile search session: 4G&#x2F;5G radio energy, SoC rendering cost for a 2.5MB page, programmatic advertising RTB auctions running in the background, and network transmission costs for both sides. Then compared it to an equivalent LLM session.<p>Main fi