• CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Do I get to include the gargantuan cooling system for the data centre and all the infastructure required to keep that going?

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      10 days ago

      Total impact is the only fair comparison. Pollution from the power plants included, sewage treatment from the houses too.

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        10 days ago

        Humans living is the whole point of civilization, though. We don’t need the LLM to pay for the techbro carbon footprint or olichsrch child abuse, so we should similarly exclude the human’s base sustensnce and survival from their budget.

        You can include the human writer’s coffee, music, and writing snacks / cigarettes.