...or at least the kind of model that isn't fueled by burning a small forest for every query? I am wanting to play an old video game, but I'm still only just learning the language and could use an aid. I really, really want to avoid any of this incredibly wasteful AI stuff.
If you're talking about one of those plugins/mods then the AI translation is occurring locally on your machine. The increase in processing use is you on your machine, not a warehouse.