GenAI: Giga$$$, TeraWatt-Hours, and GigaTons of CO.
This article reports on the environmental impacts of generative artificial intelligence (AI). Topics include the rise in demand for generative AI hardware, including graphics processing units (GPUs), as well as analysis on power consumption and carbon emissions based on the rise in generative AI usa...
| Published in: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 66; no. 8; pp. 5 - 6 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Aug2023
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