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Super happy to see something like this getting traction. As someone that is trying to reduce my carbon footprint sometimes I feel bad about asking any model to
by marcyb5st 1y ago
Super happy to see something like this getting traction. As someone that is trying to reduce my carbon footprint sometimes I feel bad about asking any model to do something trivial. With something like that perhaps the guilt will lessen
- whall6 1y agoIf you live in the U.S., marginal electricity demand during the day is almost invariably met with solar or wind (solar typically runs at a huge surplus on sunny days). Go forth and AI in peace, marcyb5st.
- marcyb5st 1y agoThanks! That helps somewhat. However, it feels like that's just part of the story. If I remember correctly hyperscalers put their green agendas in stasis now that LLMs are around and that makes me believe that there is a CO2 cost associated. Still, any improvement is a good news and if diffusion models replace autoregressive models we can invest that surplus in energy in something else useful for the environment.
- kuhewa 1y agoThis made me wonder - do any cloud compute systems have an option to time jobs or use physical resources geographically based on surplus power availability to minimise emissions? I reckon it might incidentally happen if optimising for cost of power depending how correlated that is to carbon intensivity of power generation, which admittedly I haven't thought through.
- ris 1y agoPlease see yesterday's https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/29/chatgpt-is-not-bad-for-the-environment/ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/29/chatgpt-is-not-bad-for... instead of propagating the hand-wringing.
- mmoskal 1y agoTo put this into perspective, driving for an hour in an electric car (15kW avg consumption) consumes about as much energy as 50,000 chatgpt queries [0] Running your laptop for an hour would be around 100 queries. [0] https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-much-energy-does-chatgpt-use https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-much-energy-does-chatg...