Ecomind - AI Sustainability Tracker

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🌱 Track Your AI Environmental Impact

  Ecomind helps you understand the environmental cost of your AI usage by tracking energy consumption, water usage, and carbon emissions
   across all your AI API calls.

  ✨ KEY FEATURES

  📊 Real-Time Tracking
  • Automatically tracks API calls to 12+ AI providers
  • OpenAI (ChatGPT), Anthropic (Claude), Google Gemini, xAI (Grok), Perplexity, and more
  • No configuration needed - works immediately

  🌍 Environmental Metrics
  • Energy consumption (kWh with PUE calculation)
  • Water usage (liters for data center cooling)
  • Carbon footprint (CO₂ emissions)
  • Daily usage tracking with automatic midnight reset

  🔒 Privacy-First Design
  • All data stays on your device
  • No external servers, no data collection
  • No account or sign-up required
  • Clear your data anytime

  🎯 Supported AI Providers
  • 12+ mainstream AI providers

  ⚙️ Customizable Settings
  • Adjust environmental estimation parameters
  • Configure energy, water, and carbon calculations
  • View detailed provider and model breakdowns

  📈 Usage Statistics
  • Total API calls per day
  • Top providers by usage
  • Top models by usage
  • Historical tracking

  🌐 How It Works

  1. Install the extension
  2. Use your AI services normally (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, etc.)
  3. Click the Ecomind icon to see your environmental impact
  4. Make informed decisions about your AI usage

  No configuration needed - Ecomind automatically detects and tracks AI requests in the background.

  🔧 Technical Details

  • Uses Chrome webRequest API to monitor network traffic
  • Calculates impact using industry-standard metrics
  • Stores all data locally using Chrome's storage API
  • Daily reset at midnight to track fresh statistics
  • Open source - review our code on GitHub

  🎓 Educational Purpose

  Ecomind raises awareness about the environmental cost of AI services. While the impact calculations are estimates based on industry
  averages, they help users understand that AI services have real environmental costs including:

  • Data center energy consumption
  • Cooling water usage
  • Carbon emissions from electricity generation

  💚 Why Ecomind?

  As AI becomes more integrated into our daily workflows, understanding its environmental impact is crucial. Ecomind makes this
  invisible cost visible, helping you:

  • Make more conscious AI usage decisions
  • Compare environmental impact across different providers
  • Track your progress in reducing AI-related emissions
  • Educate yourself about sustainable AI practices

  🔐 Privacy & Security

  • 100% local tracking - nothing leaves your device
  • No telemetry, no analytics, no data collection
  • No external connections except to AI services you already use
  • Open source code available for review
  • Chrome Web Store reviewed and approved
  • Alarms: Daily data aggregation at midnight for environmental impact calculations
  • Host permissions: Monitor 12+ AI provider domains to track usage
  • Remote code: NOT USED - all code is bundled locally
  • Storage: Store usage history and preferences locally (no sync, no external transmission)
  • WebRequest: Read-only monitoring of AI API requests to specific providers

  📞 Support

  Have questions or suggestions? Contact us at [email protected] or visit our GitHub repository for documentation and updates.

  🌟 Start Your Sustainable AI Journey Today

  Install Ecomind and take the first step toward more conscious AI usage. Your environmental awareness matters!