What is counted?
Identify the unit, product or system, time period and exclusions.
Student investigations
Classroom activities
Choose an activity, change a variable, and explain what your evidence supports. You do not need an AI account or to send any AI requests.
Investigate energy and water
You’ll need: Introductory unit conversion; familiarity with models and variables.
You’ll produce: A completed source audit, hand calculation, and supported headline.
- Load the reference case. List the inputs, units and system boundary before calculating.
- Open Sources & method. Identify one reported value and one authored input. Explain why a bibliography alone cannot validate an exact number.
- Reproduce annual energy and carbon. Change only the grid to 700, then restore it to 390.
- Select the illustrative 10 mL water case. Change response sensitivity from Reference to Long. Explain which outputs change and why water does not.
- List three exclusions. Identify watershed, season and consumption/withdrawal information needed before interpreting water volume.
- Write a defensible headline and a headline that overstates the evidence. Export a report with its sources.
Exit ticket: Would these results justify saying “all AI requests use this much water”? Explain.
The worksheet downloads as an HTML file. Open it in a browser to work offline or print it.
Current investigation: 25 text requests/day at 390 gCO₂e/kWh. Your inputs remain unchanged until you load the reference case.
Three questions to keep asking
Where did it come from?
Follow the exact value to a source or identify it as an authored assumption.
What can I conclude?
Explain what follows from the evidence and what still depends on missing information or priorities.