Training AI Model Uses As Much Carbon As Five Cars In Their Lifetimes, Researche

Posted by Eyerys on June 11th, 2019

Humans are still dependent on fossil fuels that are finite in amount. This is why everything we do that involves the processing and the using of fossil fuels should be carefully calculated

When AI starts getting traction, the industry often compared to the oil industry, where once refined, the product can become a highly lucrative commodity. This goes further, as people starts to realize the environmental impact of such technology.

In a paper, researchers at the University of Massachusetts performed a life cycle assessment for training several common large AI models.

Here, they found that the process can emit more than 626,000 pounds of carbon dioxide.

To put it in another perspective, this is an equivalent of nearly five times the lifetime emissions of the average car.