Real-time indicators of global AI activity

Discover how AI is reshaping our world — from code to carbon, from questions to compute.

Every second, AI generates, consumes, and transforms. TheAIMeters reveals its footprint — energy, data, imagination — in motion.

Last updated: May 3, 2026, 10:20 AM

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Explore live estimates and explanations for the most common questions about AI usage, infrastructure and environmental impact.

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World impact

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Estimated GPU-hours consumed by AI this year

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Estimated electricity consumed by AI today

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Estimated electricity consumed by AI this year

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Estimated CO₂ emitted by AI today

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Estimated CO₂ emitted by AI this year

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Estimated water consumed by AI today

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Estimated water consumed by AI this year

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Estimated GPU-hours consumed by AI today

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Activity

Available OpenAI models

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Estimated AI prompts today

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AI-generated images today (estimated)

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Estimated ChatGPT daily active users

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Software

NPM packages tagged with 'AI'

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StackOverflow questions tagged 'machine-learning'

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Machine-Learning repositories on GitHub

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AI models on HuggingFace

— models

Academic

Public AI datasets on HuggingFace

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AI papers on arXiv (cs.AI)

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Security & Ethics

OpenAI status incidents (last 7 days)

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Jobs & society

AI job postings on Adzuna (worldwide)

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