What Hannah Ritchie thinks about LLMs

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Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes Sustainability by Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of her, and revises in public when they say something she did not expect.

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1. 6 May 2025

   Our readingConcerns 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.

   data centersenergy

   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