--- title: ‘Humans use Energy and Water too’ | daily.dev description: An essay pushes back against the framing that AI coding agents' energy and water use is uniquely problematic, pointing out that humans also consume resources... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/humans-use-energy-and-water-too--xjcb5twq3 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: ‘Humans use Energy and Water too’ | daily.dev og:description: An essay pushes back against the framing that AI coding agents' energy and water use is uniquely problematic, pointing out that humans also consume resources... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/humans-use-energy-and-water-too--xjcb5twq3 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/xJCB5tWQ3.png og:image:alt: ‘Humans use Energy and Water too’ og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # ‘Humans use Energy and Water too’ **[Square](https://daily.dev/sources/publicobject)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An essay pushes back against the framing that AI coding agents' energy and water use is uniquely problematic, pointing out that humans also consume resources to do work. 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