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Artificial Intelligence

AI is integrated into more and more of our lives, how can you use it safely at school?

Environmental Impact

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  • Each query has a carbon footprint 4-5x higher than simple search
  • Very high water usage

Environmental Impact

a slide showing the lifecycle of AI from raw material extraction through to end of life disposal of a system. The portion of the life cycle up to model deployment is showing emissions of over 50 tonnes equal to powering 10 homes for a year

From raw material extraction, through the manufacturing of the required GPUs and other hardware, up to model deployment the embodied emissions, dynamic energy consumption, and idle energy consumption of Large Language Models runs about 50 tonnes of carbon emissions.


Luccioni, A. S., Viguier, S., & Ligozat, A. L. (2023). Estimating the carbon footprint of BLOOM, a 176B parameter language model. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 24(253), 1-15.