If you spend an evening in talking with an AI instead of streaming a movie from Netflix in 4k you'd have used less energy. Which would be still less than just the gas used to drive a few miles away for a night out.

And all data center usage is significantly less than something like A/C usage (which is likely to be increasing as temps increase).

There's a lot of legitimate grievances and concerns about AI — just today I was seeing a mathematician having an identity crisis in response to the unrelenting solving of open questions, something probably every field will soon struggle with adapting to — but the inflated perception of the environmental impacts means that so much less public attention is being spent on the actual culprits and possible solutions thereof.