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, or from the laptop you already own.
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. Base Drive adds no new hardware at all: it runs on the laptop you already have.
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.
Base Drive and Base Router are in development and not available to order. Prices, specifications, model lists, and dates on this page are current targets and may change before launch. Speed figures are targets and third-party benchmarks, not guarantees. Real speed depends on your hardware, the model, the length of the task, and what else the machine is doing.