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3 principles drive Viro AI:
Climate. Restore the planet, not harm it.
Privacy. We never access, share, or sell your data.
Accessibility. Free forever, for everyone.
Big Tech doesn’t share these values. Thanks for being here. Let’s change the world together.
Welcome to the anti-big tech AI.
The most radical thing you can do right now is be human.
In a world racing to hand everything to AI, keep the parts that make you, you.
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Big Tech’s water secret
When a small Oregon town asked how much water Google was using, city officials spent 13 months in court trying to keep it secret. Google paid the legal bills.
The answer: 355 million gallons in one year, 29% of the whole town’s water.
And that’s only half the story. Data centers use water two ways:
Direct: water used on-site to cool the servers. This is what companies report.
Indirect: water used at power plants to make their electricity. This is 10x+ bigger, and it usually goes unreported.
That’s the loophole. The biggest water bill lands on the power plants and the communities around them, not on Big Tech’s books. And Big Tech is spending millions lobbying against laws that would force them to disclose it.
Watch the video below.
It’s the clearest 5 minutes you’ll spend on where AI’s water actually goes.
So what about Viro?
Viro’s own AI runs in data centers across Iceland, Norway, and Finland.
Powered by clean energy (hydro, geothermal, and wind) not fossil fuels
Cooled by Arctic air and fjord water
Waste heat reused to warm a community greenhouse and raise fish
All about our water usage here.
→ Oregon city drops fight to keep Google water use private (AP)
→ UN: AI’s hidden water footprint (SBS News)
→ Big Tech spends big to fight data center rules (CalMatters)
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AI will won’t end the world
We won’t let it.
Sam Altman, creator of ChatGPT, literally said “AI will most likely lead to the end of the world and in the meantime, there'll be great companies" and “the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology“.
Is that their plan? Build AI fast, cash in $$$, and let everyone else deal with the fallout? When the person building the thing casually predicts end of the world, we need to question what business model they’re actually running.
AI isn't a doomsday clock. It's a tool — and a tool only does what its builders point it at.
Here's what AI built for good looks like:
Free for all. AI shouldn’t sit behind a paywall.
Restoring the planet. Every chat funds climate solutions.
Clean energy, not fossil fuels. Our own AI runs on hydro and geothermal.
AI should make your life better. It shouldn't become your life. And it definitely shouldn't end the world.
We’re choosing AI built for good.
Rep the mission
A hat, but it actually stands for something.
Profits fund clean energy and climate projects.
Do you code?
If you build stuff on computers, you should know about the Viro API.
Same mission, now with a direct endpoint:
OpenAI-compatible. swap your base URL and you’re in
One endpoint, many models. DeepSeek, Kimi, GPT, Claude, and Gemini
Free to try. $0.25 in sandbox credit, no card required
Build your next app on AI that’s on the planet’s side.
What’s new?
We’ve added connectors to 35+ apps (Google Drive, Mail, Calendar, Apple Music, Github, Oura Ring, etc). More on this to come, but try it out - let us know what apps we’re missing.
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– Nick