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The shipping industry emits a billion tons of CO~2~e per year. Training a model emits... maybe a thousand? An impact that could be offset by reducing Chinese imports by 0.0001%. Or arbitrarily limited by strong-arming the very few companies involved. DeepSeek knocked off a few orders of magnitude and R1 seems to work, as well as any of these things work.
Now, it is a problem locally, where datacenters double power and water use for any given county. Anything like a tiny sliver of the global shipping industry becomes noticeable when it's concentrated in one building within range of a commute.
But local models can't be worse than playing a video game. And if remote models use ten times more, it's only as bad as a round of DOTA.