Carbon Emission
0.00 kg CO2e
roughly equivalent to driving a gas car 0.2 miles
AI has a real cost.
We offset it ten times over.
We measure what our AI takes from the world. Energy. Water. The mining behind every chip. Then we donate enough to leave it better than we found it.
10×
Every month, we donate enough to offset ten times the environmental cost of every NebulaSEO user’s AI usage.
Per active user · per month
What it actually costs.
Each active NebulaSEO user runs roughly 50 AI generations per month — audits, content briefs, review responses, and GBP optimizations. The physical footprint of one user’s usage, calculated from the AI infrastructure we run on:
Water Consumption
0 mL H2O
roughly half a coffee cup, drawn from data-center cooling
Material Extraction
0 g Material
roughly a penny's weight, amortized across each chip’s lifecycle
Sources
- Carbon: derived from Luccioni et al., “Estimating the Carbon Footprint of BLOOM” (JMLR 2023) — 1.5 gCO₂e per inference, applied to a 50-generation monthly average.
- Water: derived from Li et al., “Making AI Less ‘Thirsty’” (UC Riverside, 2023) — on-site cooling water per prompt, conservative end of published range.
- Material: amortized GPU lifecycle estimate. No peer-reviewed per-query figure exists; the number reflects rare-earth and bulk-mineral content of an AI-class GPU divided across its expected inference volume. Reported here in good faith and revised as better data emerges.
Per person, small.
Across thousands of users, a problem.
Allocation
Donations are split across three best-in-class organizations — chosen because their work measurably undoes the specific damage our AI causes.
Climeworks
70% · CarbonWhat they do
Direct-air-capture plants in Iceland that pull CO₂ from ambient air and mineralize it permanently into basalt rock, 1,000m underground. Verified and audited by DNV.
Why them
AI is mostly an energy-and-emissions problem. Climeworks doesn't store carbon temporarily, it removes it from the atmosphere — which is the only thing that actually undoes the damage.
The Freshwater Trust
15% · WaterWhat they do
Restores measurable freshwater habitats in the western US — riparian planting, irrigation upgrades, watershed projects. Impact is measured in gallons returned to depleted rivers.
Why them
Every AI generation cools a data center somewhere. The Freshwater Trust puts measurably more water back than NebulaSEO's infrastructure consumes.
Pure Earth
15% · MiningWhat they do
Cleans up the world’s worst toxic pollution sites — lead smelters, mercury mining waste, chromium plants. Has remediated 120+ sites across 50+ countries.
Why them
Every GPU contains rare-earth metals pulled from mines whose downstream damage poisons real communities. Pure Earth cleans up the same supply chain that builds our infrastructure.
We refuse to:
- Call ourselves “net-zero” or “carbon-neutral.” Both are accounting labels that hide more than they reveal.
- Pay for cheap, unverified carbon credits — paper certificates from forestry projects that often never plant a tree or double-count the same forest twice.
- Hide what our AI infrastructure actually costs the planet. The numbers above are real, calculated, and ours to defend.
- Overstate our role. We are doing our share. We are not single-handedly solving climate change, and we will never claim to be.
“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.”
Robert Swan
Polar explorer · Environmental advocate
First Annual ReceiptDecember 31, 2026Itemized donations and offset verification will be published here on the date above.