Discover your AI usage's exact impact

Natasha Salmi

14 Oct 2025 — 1 min read

Last week, we told you that the climate impact of your AI use wasn't as bad as you may think. This week, our co-founder and CEO Aleksi built a tool that let's you understand the detailed impact of your exact AI usage.

Plus, I have a conversation our resident ML expert and founding engineer Leo Browning to discuss our approach to green bond data quality.

How many boiled kettles of water does your AI usage equate to?

Or alternatively, how many showers? How many oven-hours? How does this change with different tasks, AI models, and regions?

Input your daily use tasks and find out just how much energy you're using, and what % of a Londoner annual usage of water, energy, carbon footprint that represents using our brand new AI Impact Calculator.

Spoiler alert: Your AI usage is probably a marginal amount of the total energy, water, emissions, you use.

Try it for yourself here.

How do you improve green bond data quality?

I sat down with our resident ML expert and founding engineer Leo Browning for a behind-the-scenes look at how we maintain data quality for our bond product.

The takeaway? Labelled bond data is inherently complex — but AI-generated reasoning trails make human oversight dramatically more efficient.

Read more here.

What we're reading this week

China can decarbonise the world - but it won't fix its overcapacity problem An analysis by European economics think tank Bruegel about Chinese green technology sector dominance.

Examining Turbocharged AI adoption from a sustainability lens Alliance Bernstein demonstrates AI adoption's broader impact on the economy and planet.

Thanks for reading!

– Natasha Salmi

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app.climatealigned.co - Access our labelled bond data service with insights on 30,000+ bonds. Check out a free sample!

brief.green - Run AI-powered ESG assessments on-demand. Try it for free!

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