AI that doesn't need a power plant.
Every cloud query spins up hardware in a data center that runs hot, drinks water, and pulls from the grid around the clock. Offline Base answers from a box on your desk that sips power.
Watts, not megawatts
Base Router draws between 7 and 25 watts. That's the draw of a lightbulb, not a server hall.
No round trip
Your question doesn't travel hundreds of miles to a data center and back. It's answered in the room you're sitting in.
Hardware you keep
One box you use for years beats a constantly refreshed fleet of cloud hardware you never see and never own.
one hall of thousands · running whether you ask or not
megawatts, around the clock
7–25 W
the draw of a lightbulb, in the room you’re in
watts, only when you ask
415 → ~945 TWh
Data-center electricity, 2024 to 2030 (projected)
The IEA counted about 415 terawatt-hours of data-center electricity use in 2024 — roughly 1.5% of the world's total — and projects it to more than double by 2030, with AI the most important driver. Base Router's answer to that curve draws 7 to 25 watts.
Source: IEA, Energy and AI8.1 billion gallons
Google's water consumption in 2024, up 28% in one year
That's from Google's own environmental report, which also shows its data-center electricity use grew 27% the same year and has doubled over four years. A box on your desk doesn't need cooling water at all.
Source: RCR Wireless0.24 Wh per prompt
Google's estimate for a median Gemini text prompt
Plus about five drops of cooling water. Straight talk: per prompt, that's small. It's also Google's own math, not independently verified, and covers only median text prompts — not images, video, or long documents.
Source: Google Cloud Blog~43 tokens/sec at 25 W
NVIDIA's benchmark of the board inside Base Router
NVIDIA measured about 43 tokens per second on a 3B model with the module in its full 25-watt mode (module power — the wall plug adds a little more). By that spec-sheet arithmetic, not a lab measurement, a typical 200-token answer costs on the order of 0.03 watt-hours.
Source: NVIDIA Developer Blog“The greenest query is the one that never leaves the building.”
The honest part.
We won't pretend a desktop box is carbon-free. It draws power and it was manufactured. The honest claim is narrower and real: for everyday local tasks, it avoids the data-center overhead entirely, and it keeps working for years instead of being churned.