[preciz]

And each toilet flush you make should also have a Co2 calculation which should go against your daily carbon allowance.

[evrimoztamur]

Spending drinking water for toilet flushes is indeed a problem. Perhaps not CO2 measurements directly, but informing people in general of how much high quality water is wasted on flushes alone will hopefully bring more momentum into more efficient flushing mechanism and introducing grey water systems to new and old buildings alike. Good idea!

[j-pb]

people downvote your sarcasm, but if you do the calculations you're kinda right.

1Kg of Beef costs:

  - The energy equivalent of 60.000 ChatGPT queries.
  - The water equivalent of 50.000.000 ChatGPT queries.

Applied to their metric Mistral Large 2 used:

  - The water equivalent of 18.8 Tons of Beef.
  - The CO2 equivalent of 204 Tons of Beef.

France produces 3836 Tons of Beef per day,

and one large LLM per 6 months.

So yeah, maybe use ChatGPT to ask for vegan recipes.

People will try to blame everything else they can get a hold on before changing the stuff that really has an impact, if it means touching their lifestyle.

The LLMs are not the problem here.

[plants]

Those are incredible stats. As a vegan who uses LLMs at work frequently, I would love to have the source as well :)

[bluefirebrand]

The difference is that food is important and live-giving and LLMs are a very fancy magic 8-ball

[stonogo]

Toilets are already labeled with their usage rate.

[aziaziazi]

I don’t flush my toilet, I Kildwick [0] but J-pd has a more interesting comparaison

[0] https://www.kildwick.com/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=j-pb

[jrflowers]

This is a good point because being curious about energy usage is the same thing as advocating for an imaginary rule about energy usage