Simon WillisonOct 18, 2024

The environmental comparison I'd be interested in seeing is between a year of heavy personal usage of LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini etc) compared to the CO2 emissions from a single passenger flight

Can I do my own personal carbon offsetting by skipping one trip a year?

Does that question even make sense?

Show threadAlaric Snell-PymOct 18, 2024
@simon wait what, you have air trips every year? Let alone MULTIPLE air trips? Ok, sure, financially supporting LLM training and using cloud LLMs is probably not a significant addition to *your* resource consumption... 😕
Show threadSimon Willison
@kitten_tech having family in the UK having moved to the US does lead to quite a lot of additional CO2!
Oct 18, 2024 at 8:20pmWeb
Show threadAlaric Snell-PymOct 18, 2024
@simon (hug) I'd struggle with that!