How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying
How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying This article was written by Molly Taft and Paresh Dave for Wired. “PEOPLE ARE OFTEN curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses,” Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, wrote in an aside in a long blog postlast week. The average query, Altman wrote, uses 0.34 […]
AI Energy Score Ratings
AI Energy Score Ratings This article was written by Sacha Luccioni on Hugging Face. AI models power everything from chatbots to search engines, but their energy consumption remains largely opaque. Some large models require multiple cloud GPUs to run and use large amounts of energy, whereas other models are small and can run on a […]
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 […]