What's the ecological footprint of your digital life?
What's the material intensity of your digital footprint? This experimental calculator creates a material footprint of a gen-AI conversation.
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This is an experimental digital footprint tracker created to reflect on the long term, deep time material impacts of our seemingly ephemeral digital activities.
Full disclosure: it was made with the help of Claude Sonnet 4.5.
⚠️ Note: These are estimates based on research averages. Actual impacts vary by infrastructure, energy source, and hardware efficiency.
🤖 What type of AI are you using?
📱 Your Device
🌏 Location
Energy Consumed
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kilowatt-hours (kWh)
Water Used
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liters
E-Waste Contribution
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grams of e-waste annually
Server hardware becomes toxic waste in 3-5 years