Hacker News Reader

Not sure what point you wanted to make, but this calculator is quite shocking. GPT 5.5 pro, with "a long document" and 10 requests a day gives 25% of daily CO2 emissions!

Ten coding sessions a day with Opus is still 4.7%!

This feels enormous. I will definitely stop rolling my eyes when people complain about AI CO/water usage...

View on HN

GPT-5.5 Pro is a notoriously expensive model, it's 6x the price of GPT-5.5. Not something to use as a daily driver!

That ten coding sessions a day with Opus number feels more credible to me.

What are you on about? May be 1 out of 100,000 users are using 5.5 Pro to make 10 "Long Documents" as defined in that tool EVERY day. What a silly thing to harp on.

Six 100,000 token Claude coding sessions use less energy than a dryer load, and less water than making one egg. If you are truly concerned about energy and water usage, AI is not even in the top 100 things you should be concerned about in your daily life.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com