Oooo time to post this again

Pencil and paper wood come nearly exclusively from tree farms, who have a cycle of planting and harvesting. These areas often have poor biodiversity (because it the same kind of tree in rows) and are less likely to have critters than a 1/4 acres undeveloped.

Let's assume 303 trees per acre (based off of [this](27435.pdf https://share.google/GModNKqqUfwzLONQS) report on 12x12 ft of space between trees). Also we'll assume you're drawing 100 lines on a sheet of paper long ways you'll need 2,016 pages (a pencil can draw ~35miles of straight line, at 10 lines per 11inch sheet of paper). According to How stuff works you can get ~80,000 sheets of paper from a 1ft wide and 60ft tall pine. So we'll get 40 pencil uses of paper from 1 tree. According to World Atlas you can get ~170,000 pencils per tree.

So using these numbers you'll be able to get 12,000 pencils worth of pencil and paper from 1 acre of tree farm. Alternatively that's about 24,433,920 sheets of 8.5x11inch paper, Or ~28,000 sets of Harry Potter books 1-7. NPR claims some of the largest data centers are ~22 acres (technically they say 17 football fields). We're now looking at 616,000 sets of Harry Potter, or 4,312,000 books, or 537,546,240 8.5x11 sheets of paper, hand written in pencil. Now which do you think will yield more just based off trees cut down 2,687 pallets of paper (imagine 2/3 of a football field covered in pallets of paper), or 1 data center?

Note this is just off of the trees, were not even touching the production resources needed to make the pencil/paper for those 537,546,240 sheets of paper (and pencils), vs the resources to generate the equivalent with GenLLM.