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What does it cost the planet to manufacture a single chip? Pick a chip below and see the water, energy, and emissions behind every transistor — every number backed by a cited source.

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300mm wafer

85 candidate dies · yield 60%

NVIDIA H100 (GH100)

NVIDIA (manufactured by TSMC)

N4 (custom 4N)814 mm² die~84 masks1019 process steps51 good dies/wafer60% yield

The H100 die is exceptionally large (814 mm^2 — near the reticle limit of 858 mm^2). Large dies have lower yield, meaning more wafer area gets wasted per good die. This is THE chip training most of the current generation of frontier AI models. The full H100 product also includes 6 HBM3 stacks and a silicon interposer — their footprint is not included here (this app focuses on the logic die only).

Water
111L

= 221 bottles of water (500 mL)

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Energy
33.9kWh

= 22.6 hours of running an AC

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GHG Emissions
24.5kg CO₂e

= 116 km of driving a car

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F-gas / PFAS
10.2kg CO₂e

= 48.5 km of driving a car

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Process Breakdown (per die)
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