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Concerns about the energy cost of an individual LLM prompt are no longer credible, though the environmental impact of the AI datacenter buildout remains a real worry.

Drawn from what Hannah Ritchie and Simon Willison said

SubjectsLLMsdata centersenergy

On the topicWhere does the energy come from, and what is stopping it?under our view: Several of the received worries about energy use are aimed at the wrong number

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  1. Hannah Ritchie Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World Unless you’re an extreme power user, asking AI questions every day is still a rounding error on your total electricity footprint. What's the carbon footprint of using ChatGPT?hannahritchie.substack.com · 6 May 2025
    Their wordsUnless you’re an extreme power user, asking AI questions every day is still a rounding error on your total electricity footprint.

    ↗What's the carbon footprint of using ChatGPT?hannahritchie.substack.com

    6 May 2025

  2. Simon Willison Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette There’s still plenty to worry about with respect to the environmental impact of the great AI datacenter buildout, but a lot of the concerns over the energy cost of individual prompts are no longer credible. Things we learned about LLMs in 2024simonwillison.net · 31 Dec 2024
    Their wordsThere’s still plenty to worry about with respect to the environmental impact of the great AI datacenter buildout, but a lot of the concerns over the energy cost of individual prompts are no longer credible.

    ↗Things we learned about LLMs in 2024simonwillison.net

    31 Dec 2024

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