AI footprint · field instrument
How does your (or your team's) AI use impact the environment?
Every AI prompt draws electricity and water from a datacenter. Estimate the energy, water, and carbon behind your prompts below — in plain terms like cups of water and phone charges. See how it's calculated.
Mode
Your AI usage
in 30 · out 150 tokens
~3 Wh per image
Your footprint
Energy
5.7 Wh
Water
22.8 mL
Carbon
2.5 g CO₂e
That's roughly equal to
0.3
phone charges
0%
of a home's daily power
19
Google searches
dated estimate
0.1
cups of water
0.2s
of a shower
10m
of driving (≈ 32.9 ft)
These figures cover the energy of running your queries, not training the model. Carbon uses a global-average grid by default; switch region or adjust it in the assumptions.
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My AI environmental footprint
5.7 Wh
22.8 mL · 2.5 g CO₂e
0.3 phone charges · 0.1 cups of water
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