- https://mistral.ai/news/our-contribution-to-a-global-environmental-standard-for-ai
- https://www.statista.com/statistics/1201677/greenhouse-gas-emissions-of-major-food-products/
- https://www.statista.com/chart/9483/how-thirsty-is-our-food/
- https://blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-singularity
- https://x.com/sama/status/1890820962993533232
“average query uses about 0.34 watt-hours of energy” - or 0.00034MWH
Using this calculator: https://www.epa.gov/energy/greenhouse-gas-equivalencies-calc... - in my zip, 0.0002KG of CO2 per MWH. (Though, I suppose it depends more on the zip where they’re doing inference, however this translation didn’t seem to vary much when I tried other zips)
Then, 99.48KG/0.0002KG= 497,400 chatGPT queries worth of CO2 per KG of beef?
Thanks for sharing!
I think I used Btu (thermal units) in my calculation, so I only calculated actual energy expenditure for my 60.000 queries result.
But you are right, a better metric might be to use CO2-equivalent, because cows emit a lot of methane, whereas chatbots don't.
99.48KG / 0.228kg/kq = 436,315 queries per kg of beef.
Yup checks out!
> Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment
— https://andymasley.substack.com/p/individual-ai-use-is-not-b...
He’s done some good followup articles as well: