by Canadian computer scientist Lucioni, who was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world in AI in 2024, has spent years measuring the emissions of various programs. Such as ChatGPT and Mid journey.
Luccioni expressed disappointment that Generative AI is being used in internet searches. This is because the language models these programs use require enormous processing power to train billions of data points. It requires a powerful server. And even more so in each person. The energy used to fulfill user requests increases the overall energy consumption.
According to the International Energy Agency, the combined AI and theCryptocurrency Minning sectors consumed nearly 460 terawatt hours of electricity in 2022—two percent of total global production. A leading researcher on the impact of AI on climate, Luccioni participated in 2020 in the creation of a tool for developers to quantify the carbon footprint of running a piece of code. Code Carbon has since been downloaded more than a million times.
Head of the climate strategy of startup Hugging Face, a platform for sharing open-access AI models, she is now working on creating a certification system for algorithms.
The International Energy Agency reports that the AI and crypt currency sectors combined will consume approximately 460 terawatt hours of electricity in 2022, equivalent to 2 percent of total global production. Running
However, developing the tool was not without its challenges, as Luccioni applied it to an AI model it created open source. But it still wants to include it in Google and Open AI’s commercial models, which are unwilling to work together…
This is despite tech giants like Microsoft and Google pledging to be carbon neutral by the end of the decade. But their greenhouse gas emissions rose in 2023 due to AI, with Google’s emissions increasing 48 percent compared to 2019 and Microsoft’s 29 percent compared to 2020 increased.
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1.Source: Coherent Market Insights, Public sources, Desk research
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