The enormous amounts of power AI needs may become the biggest obstacle to its growth
Asking Chat-GPT ten million questions equals the energy to power 5,000 homes daily. The vast amounts of electricy AI needs, can be a serious obstacle to AI development. Current industry standards and best practices for measuring and reporting the carbon footprint of AI and chatbot technologies are still in their infancy. However, efforts are being made to establish a universal standard. AI startup Hugging Face, for example, has developed a method to estimate the broader carbon footprint of large language models (LLMs) throughout their entire life cycle. read more submitted by /u/merien_nl [link] [comments]