How Training AI Adds Up to Carbon — and What You Can Do
Training big models can quietly make a lot of carbon, even when it feels invisible.
A few simple things change the total: where the servers live and the power those servers use, how long the work runs, and the kind of hardware doing the job.
Some places run on cleaner energy, some on dirtier grids, so same job can give very different footprint.
It can be surprising, and yes it do add up fast if you run long experiments.
We made an easy online tool called the emissions calculator so people can see what their work costs the planet — and then pick better choices.
Try shorter runs, pick greener locations or newer gear, or run jobs when the grid has more clean power.
Small changes by many teams can cut big amounts of pollution.
It’s not perfect but it helps you see the impact and start to change how models are trained, step by step.
Read article comprehensive review in Paperium.net:
Quantifying the Carbon Emissions of Machine Learning
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