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Show HN: Energy, carbon and water estimates for AI content, shown as ranges

https://aicontentfootprint.com/
1•daniloedu•52m ago
Hi HN,

I built this calculator because I noticed it's easy to know how much a LLM costs per token, but it's extremely difficult to know it's carbon footprint or power consumption. I created this as a reference based on some published papers and public information, and it helps to have a guide of the impact of photo and video generation using AI.

I also added another factor about Token utilization, it's something that becomes important as the newer models start to use "thinking" modes to reach a conclusion. There is information up to earlier this year, so it's not possible to see the efficiency of newer models like OpenAI Sol or Kimi K3.

All the calculator does is to provide estimations and translate them in ordinary figures so people can understand it. There is no login required or any other type of paywall.

About the models, it's easier to make estimates for Open Source models (of course) so there's more confidence on that data. For the closed ones, there are estimations based on public available data.

Please let me know if you have suggestions in how I can improve this calculator.

Diamond IO: Indistinguishability Obfuscation at Near FE Cost via Matrix Products [pdf]

https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/236.pdf
1•binyu•6s ago•0 comments

Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/ars-notoria
1•benbreen•11s ago•0 comments

The $1M Frontier: What Comes After the AI Benchmark Race

https://www.getvertical.ai/blog/one-dollar-per-million-tokens/
1•mresposito•11s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Wingman – A client-agnostic agent harness (written in Go)

https://wingman.actor
1•ChaseRensberger•54s ago•0 comments

Notes from a Burning Paris

https://sarahwilson.substack.com/p/notes-from-a-burning-paris
1•bookofjoe•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I've mapped 126k listings from 4500 direct booking sites

https://staythere.ai
1•wthayer•4m ago•0 comments

The Story of DOM Patch

https://caolan.uk/notes/2026-04-16_the_story_of_dom_patch.cm
1•speckx•5m ago•0 comments

Blood glucose as a key pathway linking obesity to pancreatic cancer risk

https://www.iarc.who.int/news-events/study-identifies-blood-glucose-as-a-key-pathway-linking-obes...
2•elo2000•5m ago•0 comments

Accelerating scientific discovery with ChatGPT for Academic Researchers

https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-for-academic-researchers/
2•aburan28•7m ago•0 comments

Things Experts Wish You'd Do in Midlife to Increase Longevity

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/well/longevity-expert-tips-middle-age.html
1•elo2000•9m ago•0 comments

Secrets Management: The Complete Guide

https://infisical.com/blog/secrets-management-complete-guide
1•vmatsiiako•10m ago•0 comments

Exploring Serendipity in Information Seeking for Digital Collections

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.06937
1•wslh•10m ago•0 comments

Cooking for Engineers - Recipe Infographics

http://coolinfographics.squarespace.com/blog/2010/4/26/cooking-for-engineersrecipe-infographics-a...
1•CGMthrowaway•10m ago•0 comments

Use Claude Security

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14661296-use-claude-security
1•adithyaharish•11m ago•0 comments

What if more data alone won't solve robotics?

https://www.eventual.ai/blog/what-if-data-alone-wont-solve-robotics
1•ykev•11m ago•0 comments

More AUR Malware

https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1v9scc5/seemingly_malicious_aur_package_found_where_to/
2•mtty•11m ago•1 comments

Show HN: 2-bit Qwen3.6-35B-A3B with ~100% FP8 quality retention

https://huggingface.co/EschaLabs/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Escha-W2
2•phe2019•12m ago•0 comments

Revolutionary Productivity Breakthru Secret Revealed by TaskLoco Sticky Notes

https://www.taskloco.com/
1•taskloco_nyc•12m ago•1 comments

What are fire clouds, and why are they making Europe's wildfires more dangerous?

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/cna-explains-pyrocumulonimbus-fire-clouds-wildfires-6283901
1•Markoff•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Knotalot – a messy 1d –> 3D Python package from knotreel

https://pypi.org/project/knotalot/
1•bitofabluetit•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: VernLLM – The AI resilience layer for TypeScript

https://vernllm.vercel.app
2•burro•15m ago•0 comments

Building Online Communities

http://hintjens.com/blog:117
1•abelanger•16m ago•0 comments

Oscar-winning musician Glen Hansard dies in Dublin motorcycle crash

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/oscar-winning-musician-glen-hansard-dies-in-dublin-motorcyc...
1•speckx•16m ago•0 comments

Anatomy of a Formula 1 front wing [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLsmoCiv2Ck
1•dralley•17m ago•0 comments

Apple Upgrade: Is Leasing Your Next iPhone Worth It?

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/29/is-apple-upgrade-program-worth-it/
1•dabinat•18m ago•0 comments

The Download: a chip talent battle, and deflating AI hype

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/29/1140884/the-download-chip-talent-battle-deflating-ai-...
1•joozio•19m ago•0 comments

Sphere Online Judge (SPOJ)

https://www.spoj.com/info/
1•Tomte•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10

2•jaep1•21m ago•3 comments

Show HN: Indie Decision Game

https://p01--human-zoon--h9hm4gz6b7gt.code.run
1•nashsimulator•21m ago•0 comments

Infrastructure Patterns for Agentic Applications

https://render.com/blog/infrastructure-patterns-for-agentic-applications
15•jacobprall•22m ago•1 comments