Maybe start from the way in which for living humans the things we do are to continue to live and thrive. We need food, we poop, we by default consume and use things to exist at all. Our bodies are made from this earth and upkept by it. And doing anything at all on this earth is kind of the point of our existance and all of it consumes something, there is no humanity without the use of resources.

Society is the way we have organized ourselves as a species, but all the fundamental animal things we do we still need to do to survive. We cannot just not breathe.

AI is not alive, it isn't needed. Nothing it consumes is an actual need. This comparison tries to assign value to it that it does not have. It isn't even a thing on its own without people, it's made by people. This comparison is therefore pretty unserious and harder to debunk because the premises are completely uneven.