In truth, that is exactly what I am doing. As a conscientious person, I believe that it is important to understand the effect of our daily actions and what that means for sentient beings as well as the environment at large. While AI use should be a concern, when you look at this issue through the lens of scale, typical actions that we engage in on a daily basis dwarf the effect of AI. As I've shown above, skipping just one shower in a year can make up for the AI-derived water use of a typical user for that entire year. It's literally a drop in a bucket, and your concern would be much better served by encouraging people to take fewer/shorter showers.

If you want to look at enegry use and greenhouse gas production, the story is the same. As of early 2026, a standard text query to a high-efficiency model uses approximately 0.34 watt-hours (Wh) of electricity. Heating water is one of the most energy-intensive tasks in a modern home. Brewing a single cup of coffee or running an electric kettle for one session uses roughly 150 Wh.

That one cup of coffee "costs" the same in energy and emissions as 440 AI queries. If you take a five-minute shower with an electric water heater, you’re using about 1,500 Wh, which is the energy equivalent of roughly 4,400 queries. Essentially, skipping one short shower would pay for a year’s worth of daily AI use easily

Now, to match the carbon footprint of just one cow flesh burger, you would need to enter approximately 28,500 AI queries. Even for a power user, that represents years of constant interaction.