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● With the mass adoption of generative AI, the environmental impact of the digital sector, which is already responsible for 4% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs)e, is set to increase as ever-growing numbers of datacenters put more pressure on power networks and water resources.
● Some progress has been made in the drive to evaluate the carbon footprint of artificial intelligence, a complex task that has been hampered by a lack of transparency, with the publication of figures from Google and French company Mistral AI, which has commissioned the first ever study of the life cycle of a large language model.
● Researchers like Sasha Luccioni and the artificial intelligence ecosystem, through the Coalition for Sustainable AI, are mobilizing to propose standardized methods, more transparency, and sustainability-focused research so that AI contributes to the fight against global warming.