Artificial Intelligence Is Booming - So Is Its Carbon Footprint
Data Center Knowledge, March 9th, 2023
Training a single AI model can gobble up more electricity than 100 US homes use in an entire year. But with the such fast growth and limited transparency, no one knows exactly how much electricity and emissions can be attributed to the AI sector.
Artificial intelligence has become the tech industry's shiny new toy, with expectations it'll revolutionize trillion-dollar industries from retail to medicine. But the creation of every new chatbot and image generator requires a lot of electricity, which means the technology may be responsible for a massive and growing amount of planet-warming carbon emissions.