Throughout 2025, we got better estimates of electricity and water use of AI chatbots. There are all sorts of posts I could cite on this topic, but a favorite is this blog post from Our World in Data’s Hannah Ritchie. On the electricity front: In short, “unless you’re an extreme power user, asking AI questions every day is still a rounding error on your total electricity footprint.” A similar story applies to water usage. This one from Benjamin Todd: The average American uses 1600 liters of water...