Sustainability Impacts of AI

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Climate Change AI

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Aligning artificial intelligence with climate change mitigation

Lynn H. Kaack; Priya L. Donti; Emma Strubell; George Kamiya; Felix Creutzig; David Rolnick

Journal article Introductory Research Global Impact Assessment Reinforcement Learning Supervised Learning Unsupervised Learning Cross-cutting AI

Recalibrating global data center energy-use estimates

Eric Masanet; Arman Shehabi; Nuoa Lei; Sarah Smith; Jonathan Koomey

Journal article Intermediate Research Global Impact Assessment Reinforcement Learning Supervised Learning Unsupervised Learning Cross-cutting AI

Power Hungry Processing: Watts Driving the Cost of AI Deployment?

Sasha Luccioni; Yacine Jernite; Emma Strubell

Conference paper Intermediate Research Global Impact Assessment Reinforcement Learning Supervised Learning Unsupervised Learning Cross-cutting AI

Holistically Evaluating the Environmental Impact of Creating Language Models

Jacob Morrison; Clara Na; Jared Fernandez; Tim Dettmers; Emma Strubell; Jesse Dodge

Preprint paper Advanced Research Global Impact Assessment Supervised Learning Unsupervised Learning Natural Language Processing

Artificial intelligence and energy consumption: A comprehensive review

Zhenya Ji; Ming Jiang

Preprint paper Intermediate Research Global Impact Assessment Reinforcement Learning Supervised Learning Unsupervised Learning Cross-cutting AI

Help or hindrance? The travel, energy and carbon impacts of highly automated vehicles

Zia Wadud; Don MacKenzie; Paul Leiby

Journal article Intermediate Research Global Transportation Reinforcement Learning Supervised Learning Unsupervised Learning

How much energy will AI really consume? The good, the bad and the unknown

Sophia Chen

News article Introductory Research Global Impact Assessment Reinforcement Learning Supervised Learning Unsupervised Learning Cross-cutting AI

AI Energy Score

Hugging Face

Tool Intermediate Research Global Impact Assessment Reinforcement Learning Supervised Learning Unsupervised Learning Cross-cutting AI

More than Carbon: Cradle-to-Grave environmental impacts of GenAI training on the Nvidia A100 GPU

Sophia Falk; David Ekchajzer; Thibault Pirson; Etienne Lees-Perasso; Augustin Wattiez; Lisa Biber-Freudenberger; Sasha Luccioni; Aimee van Wynsberghe

Preprint paper Advanced Research Global Impact Assessment Reinforcement Learning Supervised Learning Unsupervised Learning Cross-cutting AI

Electricity 2024

International Energy Agency

Report (international organization) Introductory International organization Global Power & Energy Reinforcement Learning Supervised Learning Unsupervised Learning

Net Zero by 2050

International Energy Agency

Report (international organization) Introductory International organization Global Power & Energy Reinforcement Learning Supervised Learning Unsupervised Learning

Oil in the Cloud

Greenpeace

Report (NGO/non-profit) Introductory NGO/non-profit Global Impact Assessment Reinforcement Learning Supervised Learning Unsupervised Learning Cross-cutting AI

Smarter, smaller, stronger: resource-efficient generative Al & the future of digital transformation

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Report (international organization) Introductory International organization Global Impact Assessment Reinforcement Learning Supervised Learning Unsupervised Learning Cross-cutting AI

Community Benefits Toolkit

Local Partnerships

Conference presentation Intermediate Policy Global Climate Policy Reinforcement Learning Supervised Learning Unsupervised Learning

EU Artificial Intelligence Act

European Union

Policy document Advanced Policy Europe Impact Assessment Reinforcement Learning Supervised Learning Unsupervised Learning Cross-cutting AI

AI, Climate, and Regulation: From Data Centers to the AI Act

Kai Ebert; Nicolas Alder; Ralf Herbrich; Philipp Hacker

Preprint paper Intermediate Research Europe Impact Assessment Reinforcement Learning Supervised Learning Unsupervised Learning Cross-cutting AI

The march of artificial intelligence, data center expansion, and energy in Latin America

Institute of the Americas

Report (NGO/non-profit) Intermediate NGO/non-profit South America Impact Assessment Reinforcement Learning Supervised Learning Unsupervised Learning Cross-cutting AI

Three challenges facing compute-based AI policies

Venkat Somala; Séb Krier; Anson Ho

Blog post Advanced Research Global Impact Assessment Reinforcement Learning Supervised Learning Unsupervised Learning Cross-cutting AI

Directive (EU) 2023/1791 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 September 2023 on energy efficiency and amending Regulation (EU) 2023/955

European Union

Policy document Advanced Policy Europe Impact Assessment Reinforcement Learning Supervised Learning Unsupervised Learning

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/1364 of 14 March 2024 on the first phase of the establishment of a common Union rating scheme for data centres

European Union

Policy document Advanced Policy Europe Impact Assessment Reinforcement Learning Supervised Learning Unsupervised Learning

German Efficiency Act (Energieeffizienzgesetz - EnEfG)

German Federal Government

Policy document Advanced Policy Europe Impact Assessment Reinforcement Learning Supervised Learning Unsupervised Learning

Draining cities dry: the giant tech companies queueing up to build datacentres in drought-hit Latin America

Laís Martins; Francisco Amorim; The Guardian

News article Introductory Press South America Impact Assessment Reinforcement Learning Supervised Learning Unsupervised Learning

CodeCarbon: Track & reduce CO₂ emissions from your computing

CodeCarbon team

Tool Intermediate Research Global Impact Assessment Reinforcement Learning Supervised Learning Unsupervised Learning Cross-cutting AI

Frugal AI Challenge

Frugal AI Challenge Organizing Committee

Challenge Intermediate Research Global Impact Assessment Reinforcement Learning Supervised Learning Unsupervised Learning Cross-cutting AI