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Measuring the Carbon Intensity of AI in Cloud Instances
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The advent of cloud computing has provided people around the world with unprecedented access to computational power and enabled rapid growth in technologies such as machine learning, the computational demands of which incur a high energy cost and a commensurate carbon footprint. As a result, recent scholarship has called for better estimates of the greenhouse gas impact of AI: data scientists today do not have easy or reliable access to measurements of this information, which precludes development of actionable tactics. We argue that cloud providers presenting information about software carbon intensity to users is a fundamental stepping stone towards minimizing emissions.
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- Authors
- Dodge, J., Prewitt, T., Tachet des Combes, R., Odmark, E., Schwartz, R., Strubell, E., Luccioni, A. S., Smith, N. A., DeCario, N., & Buchanan, W.
- Affiliations
- Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (US)
- Microsoft (United States) (US)
- Microsoft Research, Canada
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
- Carnegie Mellon University (US)
- Hugging Face (US)
- Venue
- 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness Accountability and Transparency
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2022-06-20
- Pages
- 1877-1894
- OpenAlex
- W4283157527
- Cited by
- 257
- References
- 17
- Citations by year
- 2026: 73 · 2025: 74 · 2024: 60 · 2023: 43 · 2022: 7
- FWCI
- 74.38
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- Funders
- Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
- Microsoft
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Green IT and Sustainability
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Hardware and Architecture › Energy Efficiency in Computing
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Cloud Computing and Resource Management
- Keywords
- carbon intensity, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption, machine learning, carbon footprint, cloud service providers, emission measurement
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