Amanda's AI Lab

I kept hearing that AI data centers are draining towns dry, so I investigated the evidence. Here's what I found about water use, electricity demand and the real environmental impact of AI.

I tested local AI and cloud AI side-by-side to compare privacy, speed, research capabilities, customization and cost — here are the 7 biggest differences and which one wins.

I use AI for hours every day, so when it started appearing in my dreams, I began keeping a dream journal to see what was really going on.

After watching Prime Video’s new AI documentary, one statistic genuinely shook me: more than 20,000 people are building AGI while fewer than 200 focus on AI safety

I swapped my cloud-based AI inbox for a zero-knowledge email client for a week — and what I discovered about how much my old inbox knew about me was genuinely unsettling.

I tested Amazon’s Bee wearable for a month. By acting as an "external brain," it managed the invisible labor of parenting and became the only AI Mother's Day gift I'm recommending this year.

I tried the famous “Eat the Frog” productivity rule with Gemini and finally found a way to stop avoiding my hardest task of the day.

I used Ray-Ban Meta glasses to track calories instead of weighing food or logging meals manually. Here’s why this AI wellness experiment surprised me.

Google just added notebooks to Gemini — I used it to replace my notes app and organize my entire workflow. Here’s what actually happened.