Environment & energy
PrivatAI does not operate its own data centres. The energy and CO₂ figures below come from our two infrastructure providers — Scaleway for AI inference in France, Hetzner for hosting in Germany. This page reproduces them, with source and date. We do not offset any emissions and do not describe the service as climate- or carbon-neutral.
Where PrivatAI runs
- AI inference — Scaleway, region fr-par (France). This is where essentially all energy use occurs: the GPU computation of your requests.
- Application, database, web — Hetzner, Falkenstein (Germany). A single server; a very small share compared with inference.
AI inference: what one request costs
Scaleway publishes a per-token environmental footprint for its Generative APIs — including the amortised manufacturing impact of the GPU nodes, data-centre efficiency (PUE) and the location-based carbon intensity of the French grid. Location-based means: calculated from the electricity physically on the grid, not from purchased guarantees of origin.
Hosting: what Hetzner publishes
Limits of these figures
No neutrality claim. We do not offset, and we do not describe the service as climate- or carbon-neutral.
No measurement of our own. Every figure on this page comes from our providers and has not been independently verified by us. Sources are linked below.
Not a complete footprint. Covered: inference and hosting. Not covered: outbound email delivery (Scaleway Transactional Email), payment processing (Stripe), your own devices and network, and the training of the models we serve — that happens before our use and is not quantified by the model makers.
Sources
Methodology. Last reviewed by Scaleway on 2026-05-19.
Statements on hydropower, PUE, cooling and hardware lifecycle; certificates downloadable there.
Source of the per-token figures for gpt-oss-120b in region fr-par. Retrieved in August 2026.
Last updated: August 2026. Provider values change; we review this page every six months.