[achileas]

> She and her colleagues calculated that the large language model BLOOM emitted greenhouse gases equivalent to 19 kilograms of CO2 per day of use, or the amount generated by driving 49 miles in an average gas-powered car.

If you go on to read the paper, you discover this is an outright lie. These figures are for training, not usage.

[ecshafer]

So there are probably hundreds of thousands of times more greenhouse gases produced from google having employees go into the office, than they use for training

[tmpz22]

The return to office was necessary for Google to have a coherent product strategy \s

[Mo3]

Uhm, well even if it was for usage that's a pretty small amount of emissions. For training abysmally small