Google falling short of important climate target, cites electricity needs of AI
Google falling short of important climate target, cites electricity needs of AI This article is written by Alexa St. John for Associate Press. Three years ago, Google set an ambitious plan to address climate change by going “net zero,” meaning it would release no more climate-changing gases into the air than it removes, by 2030. […]
Energy Star Ratings for AI Models
Energy Star Ratings for AI Models This article is taken from the blog of Prof. Sacha Luccioni Every time we use an electronic device like a computer, a phone, or even a washing machine, we are using energy to power the device; and depending on how that energy is generated, this can result in greenhouse […]
AI already uses as much energy as a small country. It’s only the beginning.
AI already uses as much energy as a small country. It’s only the beginning. This article was written by Brian Calvert for Vox. In January, the International Energy Agency (IEA) issued its forecast for global energy use over the next two years. Included for the first time were projections for electricity consumption associated with data centers, cryptocurrency, and artificial […]
How much water does a Language Model Drink?
How much water does a Language Model Drink? This is an interview of Prof. Phillip Hacker (Yale) conducted by Faisal Khwaileh.
The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud
The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud This article is written by Steven Gonzalez Monserrate for The MIT Press Reader. Screens brighten with the flow of words. Perhaps they are emails, hastily scrawled on smart devices, or emoji-laden messages exchanged between friends or families. On this same river of the digital, millions flock […]
Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone
Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone This article was authored by Melissa Heikkilä for MIT Technology Review. Each time you use AI to generate an image, write an email, or ask a chatbot a question, it comes at a cost to the planet. In fact, generating an […]
Article: Power Hungry Processing – *Watts* Driving the Cost of AI Deployment?
Article: Power Hungry Processing – *Watts* Driving the Cost of AI Deployment? This article is co-authored by Sasha Luccioni and Yacine Jernite (Hugging Face) and Emma Strubell (CMU). The energy and carbon costs of deploying AI models have largely been unknown.. until now! The authors tested 88 models on 30 datasets from 10 different tasks […]
Kate Crawford: Exposing AI’s True Cost
Kate Crawford: Exposing AI’s True Cost In this interview conducted by Stephanie Hare of Prof. Kate Crawford, the author of Atlas of AI, the true environmental cost of AI is put to scrutiny. “The question of the environmental cost of AI is the biggest secret in the industry right now….All along the pipeline – the […]
Estimating the Carbon Footprint of BLOOM, a 176B Parameter Language Model
Estimating the Carbon Footprint of BLOOM, a 176B Parameter Language Model This article co-authored by Alexandra Sasha Luccioni, Sylvain Viguier, and Anne-Laure Ligozat estimates that BLOOM, a Large Language Model, with 176 billion parameters, emits 24.7 tonnes of CO2 during a single training. Abstract: Progress in machine learning (ML) comes with a cost to the […]
Deep Learning has a Terrible Carbon Footprint
Deep Learning has a Terrible Carbon Footprint Dr. Joy Buolamwini writes on her LinkedIn post: I’ve been thinking about the hope expressed that AI can help mitigate climate change. Yes, AI can be used to find more efficient ways to use energy. DeepMind proved itself useful to Google in 2016 by reducing data center cooling […]