Don't forget where this started, them claiming the cameras were not functioning that night. Then way way later oh look we found footage (with a chunk cut out). For all we know that footage was just recorded at a later date and the timestamp changed.
Withhold the taxes and use it directly on the project. Why give the federal government the money so they can decide when to hand it back to you, or if they cancel it entirely
I mean fuck AI but that's clearly a made up number. The amount of energy used during training maybe? But not running a model.