This is pretty cool.. I like the idea, could I make a semi-snarky feature request and could we add the estimated power consumed to produce results for each session ?
Maybe the few that were WFH prior to AI. I just calculated my carbon output for commuting and going to lunch daily versus WFH and using AI and it's wayyy less.
Let's all save earth, stay home and use AI.
I really dislike when people don't see this. They try to cut 10 grams of CO2 per day while other industries (shipping, aviation, rails) produce hundreds of tons per day and even this transportation modes are less that 20% with most CO2 produced mainly being in energy production and used by industry.
Plastic bags and papers straws is not about CO2 emissions and I wish people would stop repeating this like it's some "gotcha", it's about landfill and natural area pollution and damage to wildlife and natural areas, and that's how it's always been talked about by policy people who have advocated on this stuff.
This makes sense and I'm with you, people that are polluting beaches and natural areas should face harder punishments. That being said I'm missing plastic straws for drinking cold coffee.
Nothing stopping you from carrying your own reusable straw around with you.
Finally, most of the (local, not even thinking about the developing world) pollution is not deliberate. It blows in from other places, usually. I live rural and I'm continually picking up plastic garbage from my ditch or back forest or fields that blows in from the nearby highway and roads, especially after garbage pickup day.
Rituals define a school of thought (or a religion). These are rituals of folks who want to prevent catastrophe through conservation. To each their own.
Ultimately, individual habits do add up. But with climate, one would be hard pressed to find evidence that conservation is the path forward. It does not work, unfortunately.
It doesn't necessarily need to be actionable for now but at the moment there is an exponential growth in the datacenter power usages.
For now, sure it might be ridiculously minor, but when it starts to ramp up who's to say it wont be just a ridiculous amount of energy ? Maybe not even measure the CO2, but I would love to graph the increase of energy spent over time.
If you have some time, feel free to open a pull request — even just with a description or clarification of what's going on!
It all sounds super interesting, but I’m still trying to fully grasp the business logic behind it
Once I get the idea, I’ll be happy to jump in and implement it.
I just hit my usage limit this morning, and the article shows how to get these numbers so I can answer this myself -- I'd be curious to see what other people are doing token wise day-to-day
ccusage says I had 1k input tokens, 12k output and 1.2m cache create.
I'm not sure if that is 18.3g, 138.3g or 1213 * 8.3g.
At the highest number that's 10kg or 25% of average US daily per capita emission or 1 gallon of gas.
Oh, I thought you meant "Google, the company, published this number" (which I would have been very interested to read), not "Google, the search engine/sketchy llm, returned this result".
Soon the AI companies will have different tiers of plan based on carbon output.
For $200 per month they’ll only use carbon-free power sources for your prompts. At $100 they’ll use nuclear, then $20 per month for coal, and then there will be a free tier where your prompts are powered by throwing baby seals into a furnace.
