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SecretDreamsyesterday at 7:47 PM1 replyview on HN

I was moreso asking you about your data on how much AI is tied to CO2...


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Matticus_Rexyesterday at 8:24 PM

Andy Masley does some plausible estimates here based on the data we have that puts 50 prompts per day at around 5kg CO2e/year: https://www.andymasley.com/writing/whats-the-full-hidden-cli...

The difference between an average diet and a vegan diet via Scarborough et al. 2023/Poore & Nemecek 2018 is in the realm of 1450kg CO2e/year.

Assuming those numbers, that difference is around 14,500 prompts per day, or ~5.3M prompts per year.

So unless the prompt estimates are off by more than two orders of magnitude...

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