Climate Impact Of AI: Difference between revisions

AI and machine learning has a climate impact from the energy used at all stages from development to deployment, as well as considerations around embodied energy in hardware from GPUs to data centres. Efforts to quantify the CO2 impact of ML have been undertaken<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Lacoste|first=Alexandre|last2=Luccioni|first2=Alexandra|last3=Schmidt|first3=Victor |last4=Dandres|first4=Thomas|date=2019-10-21|title=Quantifying the Carbon Emissions of Machine Learning|url=https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09700|journal=arXiv:1910.09700 [cs, stat]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Henderson|first=Peter|last2=Hu|first2=Jieru|last3=Romoff|first3=Joshua|last4=Brunskill|first4=Emma|last5=Jurafsky|first5=Dan|last6=Pineau|first6=Joelle|date=2020-01-31|title=Towards the Systematic Reporting of the Energy and Carbon Footprints of Machine Learning|url=http://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05651|journal=arXiv:2002.05651 [cs]}}</ref>, and tools and recommendations for best practice have been created<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=ML CO2 Impact|url=https://mlco2.github.io/impact/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-03-27|website=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mlco2.github.iocom/impactBreakend/experiment-impact-tracker|title=Experiment Impact Tracker|date=2021-03-27|website=|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref>.

== Inference Models==