Amazon Nova 2 Pro Environmental Impact
AWS's current-gen multimodal model for Bedrock
Energy per query
0.90 Wh
3x more than a Google search (0.3 Wh)
CO2 per query
0.39 g
US East (Virginia) grid (450 gCO₂/kWh)
Water per query
2 mL
~599 queries to fill 1 litre
Processing location
AWS US East (Virginia)
Provider
Amazon
Category
Text / Chat
Grid carbon intensity
450 g CO2/kWh (25% renewable)
How does Amazon Nova 2 Pro compare?
Detailed Breakdown
Energy Consumption
Amazon Nova 2 Pro was announced at AWS re:Invent 2025, replacing the original Nova Pro. At ~0.9 Wh per query, it offers improved capabilities including real-time voice (Nova Sonic) and multimodal understanding while maintaining competitive efficiency on AWS Trainium chips.
Power Source & Carbon
Runs on AWS's Trainium/Inferentia chips. AWS claims to have reached 100% renewable energy for operations in 2023.
About Amazon Nova 2 Pro
Amazon Nova 2 Pro is a text and chat model from Amazon, released in December 4, 2025. AWS's current-gen multimodal model for Bedrock. Each query uses 0.90 Wh of energy and produces 0.39 g of CO₂. That's about 3.0x what a Google search consumes.
These figures are estimates derived from hardware specifications and API benchmarks — Amazon has not published official energy data for Amazon Nova 2 Pro. Actual consumption may vary significantly depending on batching, quantisation, and infrastructure optimisations that we cannot observe from outside.
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How much energy does Amazon Nova 2 Pro use per query?
Each Amazon Nova 2 Pro query consumes approximately 0.90 Wh of energy. This is 3x more than a traditional Google search (~0.3 Wh).
What is Amazon Nova 2 Pro's carbon footprint?
Based on the carbon intensity of AWS US East (Virginia), each query produces approximately 0.39 g of CO2. The grid in this region has a carbon intensity of 450 g CO2/kWh with 25% renewable energy.
How much water does Amazon Nova 2 Pro use?
Each query consumes approximately 2 mL of water, primarily used for cooling the data centers that process the request.
How does Amazon Nova 2 Pro compare to a Google search?
A Amazon Nova 2 Pro query uses 3x more than a Google search in terms of energy. A Google search uses approximately 0.3 Wh, while Amazon Nova 2 Pro uses 0.90 Wh.
Technical Details
Architecture
Multimodal Transformer (next-gen)
Context window
300,000 tokens
Release date
2025-12-04
Open source
No
Training data cutoff
2025-10