What's missing is a comparison with hiring someone to write that page of text. I.e., how much excess CO2 would a human produce writing the same page of text vs doing nothing for the same amount of time (and that's not zero - ask any freediver about their ways to reduce CO2 production in the brain), and so on.
the marginal impacts of inference, more precisely the use of our AI assistant Le Chat for a 400-token response - excluding users’ terminals:
- 1.14 gCO₂e,
- 45 mL of water,
- and 0.16 mg of Sb eq.