@vmbrasseur@social.vmbrasseur.com
Post #4401708
2026-08-06 01:32 UTC
"My median Claude Code session uses around 0.6 kWh (0.25 to 1.2 kWh), which is at the top end of Watershed’s generic agentic usage estimate, and fifty times the energy used to charge a cellphone. My average day of Claude Code (3.0 kWh, range 1.2 to 5.9 kWh) uses more electricity than running two refrigerators."
#ClimateCrisis
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@vmbrasseur@social.vmbrasseur.com 2026-08-06 01:37
Studies like these only reinforce my belief that folks who promote and extol the virtues of #LLM / #AI either don't care at all about how they contribute to devastating our climate, or they claim to care but in actuality only have loosely held beliefs that they've no problem with ignoring when it becomes inconvenient for them. That's not ethics. That's not even a moral speed bump. https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-real-energy-use-of-agentic-ai #ClimateCrisis