AI can significantly boost business efficiency and client experience, but its environmental impact, especially in energy and water use, is substantial. Despite the negative impact AI use has on the environment, it is not going away. While providing this type of framework will not mitigate the environmental impact of your AI usage, it can give you more control over when you're making the environmental tradeoff of using AI. When choosing how to implement AI into your business operations while minimizing your environmental impact, there are some key situations where using AI does not make sense. For example, using AI to create images or videos that are not necessary is not a good use of resources.