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Estimates for one year, at central values.
Your year
Water behind your year
Where it goes
| Category | Electricity, kWh a year | kg CO2e a year | Share of total |
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Share is of the total. Phone manufacturing, the rewards programs and apps you use, and the AI video estimate are shown beside the total, not in it.
By app
Each hour counts the phone, the network, and the platform's data center. proxy marks a value borrowed from another company because the platform publishes nothing.
| App | kWh a year | Of which data center | kg CO2e | Videos or posts viewed |
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By itemstreaming, devices, phone, cloud
floor leaves out handset energy no source measured. tracking is the transfer energy of data collected about you.
| Item | Quantity | kWh a year | kg CO2e | Layer |
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AI videos watched
Estimated from short-video hours. Feed apps and long-form YouTube aren't counted: no audit of their AI share exists and not every item is a video. To enter your own count, use AI videos watched a day under Change your answers. How the estimate works.
| Platform | Hours a day | Videos a day | AI share of feed | AI videos a day |
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What changes it most
Who has your data
Rewards programs and apps you use
| Company | g CO2e a year | Account lifetime, g CO2e | Organizations holding a copy | Data practices score |
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Each company's page lists what it collects, what it does with the data, and enforcement and litigation, with sources. Scores use the data practices rubric.
Brokers that hold your data
What's being logged
By source
| Source | Per day | Per year | Basis |
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More
- How does this compare to AI? Energy and water for common AI tasks, next to your year.
- Water, data centers, and AI: data-center water next to U.S. water use, reservoir evaporation, lawns, and homes.
- How it's calculated: scope, factors, ranges, and contested figures.
- Who has your data: all 52 organizations the research profiles.
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