Overview
Estimate the carbon footprint of your ChatGPT usage in real-time — right in your browser.
We've all heard about the growing energy consumption and carbon emissions from AI data centers. Did you know that the energy consumed during inference (usage) is 60% of the total emissions? What does that really mean when you're a day to day user of ChatGPT? To answer this question, the AIWattch extension calculates and displays the carbon emissions of your ChatGPT conversations in real time. Key Features: - Cumulative real-time emissions tracking as you chat - Comparison of emissions to miles driven equivalent with a gasoline car - Simple, unobtrusive interface - No data collection or storage - Free and open source How it works: The extension analyzes your ChatGPT conversations locally in your browser to estimate energy consumption and corresponding carbon emissions. No data is stored or transmitted - everything happens right in your browser. There 2 options to estimate emissions: 1. We calculate the number of input and output tokens, then compute the carbon emission equivalent based on token energy factor, grid intensity and data center PUE. 2. We calculate the time it takes for ChatGPT to return the response, add a network latency factor and derive the carbon emissions based on grid intensity and DC PUE Why it matters: As AI LLM usage grows, so does its environmental impact. Measuring and understanding your AI carbon footprint is the first step to making more sustainable choices. Open Source: AIWattch is fully open source. Check out our GitHub repository to contribute or learn more about how we calculate emissions. https://github.com/AIWattch/browser-extension
Details
- Version1.5
- UpdatedJune 2, 2025
- Offered bypascal
- Size35.03KiB
- LanguagesEnglish (United States)
- Developer
Email
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- Not being sold to third parties, outside of the approved use cases
- Not being used or transferred for purposes that are unrelated to the item's core functionality
- Not being used or transferred to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes
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