Robert Sanscartier
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ChatGPT is an energy guzzler. These things you’re doing are worse.
AI services have earned a reputation as energy-hungry beasts. But what about the other emissions in our digital lives?

https://archive.ph/XMI4f

#AI #tech#ClimateChange#GlobalWarming#IrreversibleOverheating#UpheavalClimate#GlobalBurning#ClimateDestruction#ClimateSuicide#MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Personal GHG emissions from digital activities for a typical American per year Bl Personal digital activities 1 Work digital activities 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 Standard search (8/day) | 01 Alimage creation (1/day) | 01 Al queries | 0.5 App and web use (tablet) 1 1.8 App and web use (smartphone) I 34 Video streaming (computer) 1 25.1 Digital storage | | 25.9 Internet use (computer) | 285 rvveves [+> Emissions in kilograms CO2 equivalent. lliustrative user based on time-use/technology surveys from Nielsen, DataReportal, U.S. Census Bureau. Assumes eight Al/search; one image query per day Source: Source: PlanetFWD, published estimates in the scientific literature MICHAEL J. COREN / THE WASHINGTON POST
Personal GHG emissions from digital activities for a typical American per year Bl Personal digital activities 1 Work digital activities 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 Standard search (8/day) | 01 Alimage creation (1/day) | 01 Al queries | 0.5 App and web use (tablet) 1 1.8 App and web use (smartphone) I 34 Video streaming (computer) 1 25.1 Digital storage | | 25.9 Internet use (computer) | 285 rvveves [+> Emissions in kilograms CO2 equivalent. lliustrative user based on time-use/technology surveys from Nielsen, DataReportal, U.S. Census Bureau. Assumes eight Al/search; one image query per day Source: Source: PlanetFWD, published estimates in the scientific literature MICHAEL J. COREN / THE WASHINGTON POST
Personal GHG emissions from digital activities for a typical American per year Bl Personal digital activities 1 Work digital activities 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 Standard search (8/day) | 01 Alimage creation (1/day) | 01 Al queries | 0.5 App and web use (tablet) 1 1.8 App and web use (smartphone) I 34 Video streaming (computer) 1 25.1 Digital storage | | 25.9 Internet use (computer) | 285 rvveves [+> Emissions in kilograms CO2 equivalent. lliustrative user based on time-use/technology surveys from Nielsen, DataReportal, U.S. Census Bureau. Assumes eight Al/search; one image query per day Source: Source: PlanetFWD, published estimates in the scientific literature MICHAEL J. COREN / THE WASHINGTON POST