In the late 2000s there was a push by a lot of businesses to not print emails and people use to add a ‘Please consider this environment before printing this email.’
Considering how bad LLMs/‘ai’ are with power consumption and water usage a new useless tag email footer should be made.
I don’t know if it would help, but you could also add links to articles about this. You could put hyperlinks behind numbers - like “[see 1, 2, 3, 4…]”.
Here are some if you want to do this: https://www.wired.com/story/new-research-energy-electricity-artificial-intelligence-ai/
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/23/data-centers-powering-ai-could-use-more-electricity-than-entire-cities.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20240318115424/https://disconnect.blog/ai-is-fueling-a-data-center-boom/
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-is-revitalizing-the-fossil-fuels
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-ai-power-home-appliances/
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-impacts-data-centers-water-data/
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/15/data-center-gas-emissions-tech
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/12/23/arizona-data-centers-navajo-power-aps-srp/
Na, that’s too useful the point is to be virtue signalling