Podcast: Does using AI chatbots actually raise your carbon footprint? Probably not
AndyMasley · x · 2026-09-01
Andy Masley joins Two Psychologists Four Beers (Ep. 133) to defend his (in)famous claim: using AI chatbots doesn't meaningfully affect your personal carbon or water footprint. Topics include what data centers actually do with water, why "ten times a Google search" is a bad metric, and why people resist data centers near their homes. He also discusses his involvement in effective altruism and whether EA funding should undermine trust in him, plus self-driving car discourse. Correction: raising emissions isn't 150,000 prompts for +1% — sending 1,500 prompts a day would roughly double your emissions.
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