This concern is unfounded and shows up lack of understanding of where the power consumption comes from. The power consumption comes from the training phase Apple is not going to be training their AI models, which is just ChatGPT anyway on your phone, That just makes no sense. Using a model that’s already been trained is very energy efficient. There’s no waste there and since everyone is using the same copy of the originally trained model it’s really not that energy expensive when you consider how expensive in energy and resources any manufactured product is.