Privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) have attracted significant attention in response to privacy regulations, driving the development of applications that prioritize user data protection. At the same time, the IT sector faces growing pressure to reduce its environmental footprint, particularly its energy consumption. While numerous studies have assessed the energy consumption of IT applications, the environmental impact of cryptographic PETs remains largely unexplored. This  work investigates this question by measuring the energy consumption increase induced by three PETs compared to their non-private equivalents: TLS, Searchable Encryption, and Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). These technologies were chosen for two reasons. First, they cover different maturity levels –from the widely deployed TLS protocol to the emerging FHE schemes– allowing us to examine the influence of maturity on energy consumption. Second, they each have well-established applications in industry: web browsing, encrypted databases, and privacy-preserving machine learning. Our results reveal highly variable energy consumption increases, ranging from \(2\times \) for TLS to \(10\times \)  for Searchable Encryption and \(100{,}000\times \) for FHE. Our experiments highlight the wide spectrum of energy demands across technologies, underscoring the importance of further research on sustainable PET design. Finally, we discuss orthogonal research directions, such as hardware acceleration, to outline promising directions toward sustainable PETs.