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Comment by kolinko

3 hours ago

That’s for i/o tokens, mostly output. 90-98% is cache read usually, so you can divide electricity use by 10 at least.

As for co2, it depends on the provider, it could be way lower as well.

As for ethics, you don’t know what he works on, and how effectively - he might be saving 10x that much of co2 for the planet.

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