Comment by simonw
13 hours ago
At first glance this looks like a credible set of calculations to me. Here's the conclusion:
> So, if I wanted to analogize the energy usage of my use of coding agents, it’s something like running the dishwasher an extra time each day, keeping an extra refrigerator, or skipping one drive to the grocery store in favor of biking there.
That's for someone spending about $15-$20 in a day on Claude Code, estimated at the equivalent of 4,400 "typical queries" to an LLM.
Comparing it to running a refrigerator or the dishwasher is very relatable, as most people have at least one refrigerator without a second thought.
This is for someone using a lot of LLM tokens relative to the average customer of these companies.