You thought training AI was the problem. That stopped being true.
The bigger, faster-growing share of AI's energy now comes from inference: everyday use. Every prompt, billions of times a day.
Around a third of AI compute in 2023, roughly half or more now.
Which means the impact sits where your choices are: not in training you can't touch, but in daily use you can.
That's why GreenPT shows the energy of every chat as you go:
🥳 low
😐 rising
🔥 high.
GreenPT is now a global partner of Green IO, sponsoring every event worldwide. 🌍
Green IO is Gaël Duez's podcast-and-conference series where the people who actually work on digital sustainability meet, in London, Singapore, Paris and beyond. Practical, honest, independent.
That's exactly where we want to be. Thanks to Gaël for what he built.
Which edition would you pick? 👇
Search and OCR/scrape are now free on the GreenPT API. No tier, no asterisk.
So you can let your AI search the web, pull text from images and documents, and scrape structured data from pages, at no extra charge. Same European, renewable infrastructure as the rest of GreenPT, carbon cost shown per call.
Search and clean input data are what most useful AI actually runs on. They should be within reach, not behind a paywall.
The UN (UNU-INWEH) just published what AI costs the planet. Three numbers that stuck:
AI is heading for ~3% of global electricity by 2030, with emissions comparable to the UK.
Its water footprint could equal the drinking water needs of Sub-Saharan Africa, 1.3 billion people.
In Ireland, data centres already take 21% of electricity; Dublin froze new connections until 2028.
The fix isn't prompt guilt. It's infrastructure and providers who show their numbers. We publish ours per conversation.
We're at OneGov today and tomorrow as tech partner, the govtech hackathon at The Hague Tech in Den Haag.
The challenges are real ones: a clear government overview for bereaved families, synthetic populations for pandemic preparedness, and a robust drinking water supply for 2040.
Every team gets free access to GreenPT and credits to build with, and we're picking one winner for a full year free. We'll let you know who wins!
(Dutch post — we were featured in a Dutch sustainability magazine!)
"Je hoeft ook geen boodschappen te doen met een Ferrari." 🏎️
Robert in Nu Duurzaam (03/2026) over GreenPT en de energiehonger van AI.
Met dank aan Floortje Gunst voor het stuk.
AI doesn't speak most of the world's languages. And most of the world can't run it.
Our founder Robert joined Open Knowledge Foundation's AI Learning Labs to talk about closing that gap and how GreenPT fits in. 🌱
(Dutch post, Robert was on a Dutch podcast!)
Hoe langer je AI-chat, hoe meer energie elk bericht kost. 🔋
Onze oprichter Robert Keus legde het uit bij Groen Goud. Daarom heeft GreenPT een indicator die je het energieverbruik per gesprek laat zien. 🌱
Most AI tools hand you a blank screen and say: good luck.
We build custom apps around the tasks your team actually does. Subsidy applications, proposals, document analysis. Ready to use from day one. 💚
Most AI tools process your data on US servers, run on fossil fuels, and give you a blank box with no guidance on what to ask.
We built GreenPT Apps differently. Ten specialists, each built for one task. EU infrastructure. Renewable energy. GDPR by design.
