# Cleer Dashboard – How much energy⇄ does AI inference use?

> Source: <https://cleerdash.sustainableaigroup.com/>
> Published: 2026-10-08 17:04:46+00:00

This dashboard applies **CLEER**, a new approach for estimating the
      environmental impact of closed AI models. It combines peer-reviewed
      research, large-scale empirical testing, and practical application to
      corporate emissions inventories.
    

**CLEER** (Closed-model Latent Energy Estimation Range) estimates
          per-token energy for models that cannot be measured directly. It
          benchmarks open models on known hardware, matches proprietary models
          to the closest proxies based on observed performance, and projects
          their energy use onto measured power curves.
          [Technical Report →](https://reports.sustainableaigroup.com/CLEER-Tech-Report)

          The dashboard translates per-token estimates into representative
          **chat** and **agentic** sessions derived from public production
          datasets. Every model receives the same token workload, so differences
          primarily reflect energy intensity rather than how verbose each model
          tends to be. Actual results will also depend on the number of tokens a
          model generates in practice.
        

Workload sources: ShareChat conversations, Qwen serving traces, and AgentX coding-agent sessions.

          Results include accelerator and host-server energy,
          idle capacity, cooling and power distribution, and
          embodied emissions from hardware and data center construction.
       
          **Scenario default:** behind-the-meter gas generation at
          **640 gCO₂e/kWh**, combined with US-average data center assumptions for PUE (1.45). Both values can be toggled in the dashboard.
          Learn more: [Emissions Calculation →](#)

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