alt Hacker NewsI dont know what to tell you. I guess - correct your misconceptions?
Carbon footprint of commute is in KGs of CO2. A day's worth of AI, depending on model, is ~15-100g of CO2.
Heck food you eat has more than a few Kgs of footprint everyday.
I dont know what to tell you. I guess - correct your misconceptions?
Carbon footprint of commute is in KGs of CO2. A day's worth of AI, depending on model, is ~15-100g of CO2.
Heck food you eat has more than a few Kgs of footprint everyday.
I won't belabour the point, but I think someone needs to correct their misconceptions. You're comparing a single, average person's usage of AI in a day -- not the billions who actually use it. Then you are comparing it to an American's two-hour commute in an oversized SUV. (A commute on the Tube costs about 0.02991 kg per passenger, per kilometre.)
What about training those models? Or the usage of all of the data centres? The projections are that by 2028 a fifth of all energy consumption in the U.S. alone will be for AI.[1]
[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energ...