{"id":279,"date":"2026-10-22T19:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T17:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/?p=279"},"modified":"2026-10-22T19:41:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T17:41:52","slug":"ai-compute-footprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/2026\/ai-compute-footprint\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Compute Footprint"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/blog-mobile-tall.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"506\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/blog-mobile-tall-506x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/blog-mobile-tall-506x1024.png 506w, https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/blog-mobile-tall-148x300.png 148w, https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/blog-mobile-tall-768x1556.png 768w, https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/blog-mobile-tall-758x1536.png 758w, https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/blog-mobile-tall-1011x2048.png 1011w, https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/blog-mobile-tall.png 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I made <a href=\"https:\/\/heyyeah.github.io\/AI_Compute_Footprint\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/heyyeah.github.io\/AI_Compute_Footprint\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AI Compute Footprint<\/a> to understand how much much energy, space, water and CO\u2082 data centres need to run everyday AI tasks, and how that compares with the footprint of other everyday activities. I have a feel for how long a query takes when it runs on a local AI model on my laptop but I wanted to understand if we are all running these queries concurrently, how much compute is that, how many GPUs, how much land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made AI Compute Footprint to understand how much much energy, space, water and CO\u2082 data centres need to run everyday AI tasks, and how that compares with the footprint of other everyday activities. I have a feel for how long a query takes when it runs on a local AI model on my laptop &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/2026\/ai-compute-footprint\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI Compute Footprint<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}