AI Wattch - Track Your AI Footprint Autor: Antarctica

🌍 Overview

Every AI interaction you have consumes energy, but not all prompts are created equal.

A short, precise prompt may use just a few hundred tokens; a vague one can multiply that tenfold, while producing poorer results. AI Wattch makes this invisible impact visible.

Built by Antarctica and IT Climate Ed, AI Wattch helps you understand how your usage habits shape your AI footprint. Using the One-Token Methodology, it translates your AI activity across ChatGPT and Claude into clear data: energy used, carbon emitted, and efficiency per model and session.

AI Wattch isn’t about guilt. It’s about awareness. It helps you build better prompting habits, choose efficient models, and see how your single prompt impacts your work and the planet.

⚡ How It Works

1. Install the extension and open your favorite AI tool. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini (Coming soon).
2. Start prompting as usual. AI Wattch quietly monitors your session, counting tokens, estimating compute load, and showing the resulting energy and carbon impact.
3. Compare results between sessions or models. Learn which AI models are more efficient and which prompting styles consume more energy.
4. Get insights on how to make your prompting more efficient. Write clearer instructions, reduce retries, and limit unnecessarily long completions.

The more consciously you use AI, the smaller your footprint becomes.

💡 Key Features

1. Real-Time Footprint Tracking
   See the energy use and CO₂ impact of every session, token, and model. Data updates instantly as you prompt.
2. Prompt Efficiency Feedback
   AI Wattch highlights inefficient prompting patterns: excessive retries, overly long completions, or vague requests that drive token waste. It helps you think greener while you type.
3. Model Comparison
   Compare ChatGPT, Claude, and others to understand their efficiency per token and per output. Learn which models deliver more with less.
4. The One-Token Methodology
   Powered by Antarctica’s research-backed framework, emissions are calculated based on real-world compute intensity, cloud carbon mix, and model efficiency data, all normalized per token.
5. Local, Private, Secure
   AI Wattch never reads your chat content or sends data off your device. Everything runs locally in your browser, ensuring absolute privacy.
6. Learn While You Use
   Through insights from IT Climate Ed & Antarctica, AI Wattch explains what your numbers mean and how to improve them, making every interaction a small act of learning.

🌳 Why It Matters

We often think the environmental impact of AI comes from massive data centers or GPU farms.

But there’s another side, the usage layer.

Every unnecessary prompt, every repeated query, every overly long response consumes more compute power. A wasted token is a wasted computation. With the technology sector about to represent 8% of global emissions, turning awareness into action by using AI Wattch empowers users to make AI more sustainable.