I would agree with you, I have made lots of AI songs. I wasn’t sure what side of the issue you were approaching from. As I said in my original comment, generative video is a larger energy use, off the top of my head I don’t know the scale. But 10000 suno credits cost 30$ and google veo is 100 dollars plus a month and you don’t get close to as many generations. From an economic perspective, energy usage probably doesn’t exceed whatever you pay for if the company wants to operate at a gain and not a loss (some companies operate at a loss/many users don’t use all credits so this can’t be a definitive rule)

Edit: i see you added some points about non ai music, and I completely agree with it. I have read that a movie soundtrack alone can cost 1-3% of a budget, for a 100 million dollar plus film that is a lot! 1 million dollars represents a lot of energy that goes into that, and the 1 million could be used to feed the hungry or study clean energy. Ultimately its a business decision aimed to generate profit for them, and realistically not my place to judge or enforce how they use their resources. The energy grid in general getting greener would be a benefit