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Steph Gray
@lesteph.com

I like the granularity of this calculator by @dantaylorwatt.com of your personal AI environmental footprint. I find the moral panic about AI on ecological grounds a bit tiresome so it's good to have some apparently well-sourced data to work with: www.dantaylorwatt.com/ai/ai-enviro...

dantaylorwatt.comAI Environmental Impact CalculatorEstimate the energy, carbon and water footprint of your AI use: chatbots, image generation, video generation and agentic coding. Based on published 2025-26 measurements.

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Bob Davies
@bobbigmac.bsky.social

it's a very simplified way of looking at it cos it doesn't include training costs, only the execution. 95%+ of AI training wouldn't happen if nobody was 'paying' for access to the results of it. Making it a personal choice metric like carbon footprint (blech) is blaming people with the least power

Bob Davies
@bobbigmac.bsky.social

I run almost exclusively slowly, on local models, so my 'cost' is very low and I know it costs zero water, for example, but it's still higher per-cycle than if I outsourced more to a newer, more efficient data-center that displaces those impacts. I want *more* data-centers TO solve the cost of AI