When talking about LLMs and sustainability, it's not enough to say “we don't know the impact, as companies don't disclose data”.

We may not have a lot of the actual data, but there are pretty reasonable estimates. Even conservative ones say LLMs have magnitudes more climate impact than doing the same thing without LLMs.

@hdv I think we do need to get rough estimates of the impact. If it's a 0.1% increase in total CO2 emissions, we should focus our climate efforts elsewhere.