Estimated tokens processed by large language models since midnight UTC. A token is roughly three quarters of a word.

Nobody counts this as it happens. EarthNow takes a published figure for the whole day, divides it by the 86,400 seconds in a day, and multiplies by the seconds elapsed since midnight UTC. So the value climbs smoothly and is the right order of magnitude — but the smoothness is arithmetic, not observation. Nothing happening in the world is being watched in real time.

value = daily total ÷ 86,400 × seconds since 00:00 UTC

A consequence worth knowing: the counter resets at midnight UTC, not at your midnight. And because every signal advances at a constant rate, this page cannot tell you whether today is unusual. For that you need a measurement.

A floor, not a total: Google alone reported 480 trillion tokens a month in 2025.

Daily total

15.78T tokens

Published by

Google (2025)

The figure is theirs; the running total is ours. Cite them for the number, and EarthNow for what it looks like as it accumulates.

• Model efficiency per unit of output, which improves quickly
• Total usage, which has so far grown faster than efficiency
• Where data centres sit, and what that grid burns at the hour of use
• Cooling method — some of the water use is consumptive, not returned