New MIT Sloan Management Review Article Reveals that the AI Industry Could Soon Be One of the Largest Contributors to Carbon Emissions
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Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Training OpenAI's GPT-3 model is estimated to have used the equivalent of 120 average U.S. households' annual energy consumption.
Key Points:
- Training OpenAI's GPT-3 model is estimated to have used the equivalent of 120 average U.S. households' annual energy consumption.
- An average data center, critical infrastructure for AI, consumes the equivalent of heating 50,000 homes yearly.
- "Several factors contribute to the carbon footprint of AI systems throughout their life cycles," explains Niklas Sundberg, author of the article, " Tackling AI's Climate Change Problem ."
- The MIT Sloan Management Review article " Tackling AI's Climate Change Problem " publishes at 8 a.m.