MIT Technology Review
Carbon-Responsive Computing
100

The estimated carbon footprint of Hugging Face's LLM, BLOOM, throughout its entire life cycle

50 metric tons of CO2

100

How Carbon-Responsive Computing aims to reduce the carbon footprint of computing

What is merging renewable energy with computing infrastructure?

200

BLOOM's carbon emissions compared to the carbon footprint of around 60 flights between London and New York

Roughly equivalent to 60 flights between London and New York.

200

Strategies implemented in data centers to improve energy efficiency in Carbon-Responsive Computing

What are demand response and smart grid technologies?

300

Energy source powers the French supercomputer used to train BLOOM

Nuclear Energy

300

This company's platform serves as an example of integrating renewable energy with computing infrastructure in Carbon-Responsive Computing.

What is Google's Carbon-Intelligent Computing Platform?

400

Significant factor that explains the high carbon emissions of GPT-3 compared to BLOOM

GPT-3 emits over 500 metric tons of CO2 largely due to being trained on older, less efficient hardware, highlighting the importance of using more efficient technology to reduce carbon footprints.

400

The way Carbon-Responsive Computing advances energy generation in computing systems

What is by promoting decentralized energy generation and integration with computing systems?

500

CO2 BLOOM emits daily after deployment, equivalent to driving 54 miles in a car?

BLOOM emits approximately 19 kg of CO2 daily after deployment

500

Apart from technological advancements, the sociotechnical dynamics that Carbon-Responsive Computing addresses

What are issues related to democracy in technology, standardizing carbon data, and fostering equitable exchanges within the computing industry?

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