Even if the company is "green" they make money, they pay employees/stockholders, those people use the money to buy more things and go on vacations in airplanes. Worse, they invest the money to make more money and consume more goods.
Even your gains and vegetables are shipped in to feed you, if you walk to the grocery store. You pay rent/mortgage for a house built with concrete and steel. The highest priced items you pay for are also likely the most energy and environmentally costly. They create GDP.
It's a little weird with LLMs right now, because everything is subsidized by VC, Ads, BigCo investment so you can't see real costs. They're probably higher than the $30-200/mo you pay, but they're not 10x the price like your rent, car payment, food, vacation, investment/pension are.
Even if the company is "green" they make money, they pay employees/stockholders, those people use the money to buy more things and go on vacations in airplanes. Worse, they invest the money to make more money and consume more goods.
Even your gains and vegetables are shipped in to feed you, if you walk to the grocery store. You pay rent/mortgage for a house built with concrete and steel. The highest priced items you pay for are also likely the most energy and environmentally costly. They create GDP.
It's a little weird with LLMs right now, because everything is subsidized by VC, Ads, BigCo investment so you can't see real costs. They're probably higher than the $30-200/mo you pay, but they're not 10x the price like your rent, car payment, food, vacation, investment/pension are.