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Database entryUsesLevel 4 of 6 occupation or activityOccupation or activity, level 4 of 6Used to calculate 7 entries, levels 5 and 6Calculated with 10 entries, levels 1 and 3Database structure

Videographer, 1 year

A year of work for a video maker who uses AI: about 79 meetings transcribed and summarised, 6.6 clips of 10 seconds, 22 clips of 5 seconds, and 6 other tasks. Estimate by Projet Celsius.

  • Video and voice account for 60% of emissions: "Clip of 10 seconds" weighs as much as 1,100 quick questions.
  • About 530 requests to AI over the year, or 2.4 per working day.
  • 5.7 times the AI footprint of an office employee, for the same use.
  • An estimate: the frequencies and the share done with AI are our assumptions.
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Breakdown of emissions by item

3.4 kgCO2e in total: 7.4 kWh of electricity × 458 gCO2e/kWh (servers worldwide).

Inputs of the calculation 8

PUE of the data centre, Transcribe one minute, Read 1,000 tokens, Second of video, Generate an image, Summarise a meeting, Clip of 5 seconds, Clip of 10 seconds

How the calculation is built

A year of work for a video maker who uses AI, task by task: rushes transcribed, shots generated, thumbnails, subtitles translated. Frequencies come from the content of the occupation, AI use from usage surveys (OpenAI, Microsoft, Crédoc); these are assumptions, and they can be adjusted.

Comparison with other occupations and activities

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Characteristics

Unit1 person, 1 year : 220 days
Default locationworld, 458 gCO2e/kWh (Ember 2025, life cycle); 11 other locations to choose from
Countedthe tasks done with AI over a working year, including data centre cooling
Not countedserver manufacturing, model training, the person's device and the tasks done without AI
Statusestimated
All the characteristics identifier, version, rule for the value, sources, licence
IdentifierIA-0312, projetcelsius.com/en/ai/database/IA-0312/
Version0.1 of 2 November 2026
CategoryOccupations and activities, one person, one year
Choice of the selected valuedatabase calculation from the entries this one is made of, at the quantities of the unit
Sourcescalculation of the database
LicenceCC BY 4.0
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