The Environmental Impact of AI - Cloud, Local, or in Your Pocket?

(What an AI answer actually costs in electricity and water, where the damage splits between training and running, whether a 5060 Ti or an M4 Mac mini at home is genuinely greener than ChatGPT, and how far the tiny models that run on a phone have come.) As everyone knows, I&rsquo;ve been playing around with AI lately for some projects, some you might find interesting, others you might not. My…