About This Site
About This Site
Joel Gladd's guide to comparing prompts, streaming, meetings, search, and everyday online activity through energy, water, and infrastructure.
- The site was created by Joel Gladd.
- The project treats AI as one part of a broader digital-activity system.
- The calculator is for directional comparison, not exact personal accounting.
- Source labels matter because system boundary and scope change the answer.
- Jon Ippolito's What Uses More? was an early blueprint for the comparison frame used here.
- Except where otherwise noted, site content is published under CC BY 4.0.
Created by Joel Gladd
I’m Joel Gladd, and I built this site because I got tired of watching public claims about AI swing between hand-waving and apocalypse talk. The comparison problems seemed obvious. People would isolate one prompt or one headline number, then ignore streaming, meetings, search, and the rest of digital life.
So this site is my attempt to make digital activity easier to read. I wanted a place where prompts, streaming, meetings, and other online habits could sit side by side, with the sources close enough to inspect and enough method notes that you can tell what a number includes and what it leaves out.
Use the calculator to get a directional picture. Then use the source and method pages to see where the estimates come from and what assumptions are doing the work.
Credit and lineage
I owe an explicit debt to Jon Ippolito’s What Uses More?. His site was an early blueprint for the comparison frame used here: put AI tasks beside streaming, meetings, search, and other familiar digital activity so the comparison stays grounded. This site keeps its own calculator, source registry, and method notes, but the family resemblance is intentional.
Jon’s public note on reuse is a good model. He marks his app as shareable and adaptable, gives a preferred citation, and points readers back to the underlying source sheet. I’m trying to follow the same basic posture here. The calculator is for orientation. When a claim matters, the better move is to trace it back to the linked studies and source pages.
License and reuse
Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. CC BY 4.0 requires appropriate credit, a link to the license, and an indication of changes when material is adapted. If you reuse material from this site, keep those three pieces visible.
I also want the lineage to stay visible. That’s why What Uses More? is named here as an inspiration and early blueprint for the calculator frame.