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I asked GPT 5 to extrapolate this to a Max Claude code monthly usage, two sessions a day, just business days. It guessed that would be 21k prompts a month. Goog
by swader999 1y ago
I asked GPT 5 to extrapolate this to a Max Claude code monthly usage, two sessions a day, just business days. It guessed that would be 21k prompts a month. Google’s proxy numbers give a monthly footprint of ~5.1 kWh, ~5.53 L water, and ~0.64 kg CO₂e for heavy CC use.
That's equivalent to doing less than two miles driving(CO2), one toilet flush (water) and about three dryer loads of laundry.
- oulipo2 1y agoSure, but now multiply that "new use-case" that we weren't consuming before by 7 billion humans on the planet... that's the issue We can always keep adding new stuff and say each time "oh but it's small"... sure, but if we keep adding more, altogether it becomes huge
- swader999 1y agoAnd then what kind of reaction will we have when inference and work is less intensive environment wise for AI to do vs a human? That may even already be the case. See here: https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMw%3D%3D_60f4890d-711b-4331-984-bd244187ef7d https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMw%3D%3D_60f4890d-711b-4331-9... credit: HN user pama
- IshKebab 1y agoUsing AI to calculate a trivial multiplication...
- swader999 1y agoYep, I'm weaker than you.