Technology: Let's talk about the elephant in the room! As many are aware, AI now uses more energy than ever. That said, we're likely not going back now that we love the efficiencies it offers and due to lack of regulation. It's already inherent in most search engines and taking over administrative roles at many companies. When considering energy usage, we can invite ourselves to be thoughtful, not creating unnecessary searches, tasks, and especially images and videos. We can be prepared with our prompts and descriptions, being very intentional, as we use it. The good news is, we know there are new energy sources (already available but not widely used due to monetary policies), that eventually will be implemented to power AI!

Technology: Also, an often unknown, but a very common high energy use is streaming videos. The more we stream at the higher the quality, the more energy we use. However, the good news is, you can lower the quality of your video stream in the settings button down in the right hand corner of your vision, to reduce impact.