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> using it all day (say 8h) costs between 0.7 and about 14 kg of CO2 in the US, How do you get to this range? That's quite a spread. When I last ran the math,
by losteric 4mo ago
> using it all day (say 8h) costs between 0.7 and about 14 kg of CO2 in the US,
How do you get to this range? That's quite a spread.
When I last ran the math, my daily usage (efficient and effective productivity, not spamming Gas Town) came to about 0.67 kg of CO2, which is roughly equivalent to my individual emissions from the 1 mile public bus ride home from work.
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- lucb1e 4mo agoData is from https://app.electricitymaps.com/map https://app.electricitymaps.com/map The difference is so big because renewables are just that much more efficient than coal and, to a lesser extent, natural gas. You can have 60% coming from renewable sources and still emit 400g/kWh with a coal and gas mix, whereas all hydro is 24g/kWh according to that source. The production component is what makes renewables not completely emission-free
- 332451b 4mo agoI'm curious how you got the energy consumption for 8 hours of use. I would imagine there's a huge spread there too. Depending on hardware, size of the model, requests being batched and queued rather than occupying a whole GPU or TPU, or if you are running an agent loop for 8 hours straight or spend most of the time reviewing results.