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How Developers Can Lower AI’s Climate Impact
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How Developers Can Lower AI’s Climate Impact

by Sanjay Podder, Senthil Ramani, Shalabh Kumar Singh
January 2024
Intermediate to advanced
5 pages
10m
English
MIT Sloan Management Review

Overview

AI development can consume large amounts of energy, leading to growing concerns about the climate impact of this emerging technology. The authors explain how tactics such as rethinking how much training data is required and reusing already-trained models can reduce energy consumption and lower the resulting carbon emissions from artificial intelligence initiatives.

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