By turning off your lights all day every day for a month, you conserved about 1 percent of the energy needed for AI to generate a picture of a duck wearing sunglasses. Isn’t he cute? Aside from the fact that he has the feet of a human man, of course.
Techbro grifts love to greenwash their energy costs. Internet funny money did that with claims of "these proof-of-work math puzzles could be done with green energy!" as if that energy couldn't be used for something, anything else. Now treat printers have basically the exact same claim of energy and pollution mitigation but with a side order of "if the robot god wakes up every problem will be solved anyway, just you wait!"