“Unless you’re an extreme power user, asking AI questions every day is still a rounding error on your total electricity footprint.”

“Unless you’re an extreme power user, asking AI questions every day is still a rounding error on your total electricity footprint.”

https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/carbon-footprint-chatgpt

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Simon Clark did an awesome video on this on YouTube. It was super interesting.  Essentially it's not much of our individual electricity use... but companies putting AI into everything lifts all energy use - it all adds up.

Of course, this is offset by renewables... but that is also offset by using renewables for AI instead of decarbonizing other uses.  It's all nuanced.