The Carbon Cost of AI

What's the environmental price?

Every time you generate an AI image, ask ChatGPT a question, or use any AI tool, you're consuming energy and producing carbon emissions.

You're about to generate 10 AI images. Watch the environmental cost add up in real-time.

Note: This experience uses cached placeholder images and simulates the environmental cost. The actual carbon emissions shown are based on real-world data for AI image generation.

Before we start, some context:

Training GPT-3 emitted 552 tons of CO2 — equivalent to 123 cars driven for a year

A single ChatGPT query uses 10x more energy than a Google search

ChatGPT processes 1 billion queries per day

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