There are other good articles about this in OWID: https://ourworldindata.org/does-the-news-reflect-what-we-die...

Who said this is controversial?

Maybe it just the zeitgeist... "mmm this article doesn't make me want to kill the OP... something is off here"

The main number seems to be that a single text query takes about 0.24 Wh, which is as much energy as 9 seconds of TV. They say they had a 33-fold drop in energy use in just one year.