Mistral's new "environmental audit" shows how much AI is hurting the planet
The environmental audit by Mistral reveals that the majority of CO2 emissions and water consumption arise during model training and inference, not from construction or end-user equipment.
Some AI Prompts Can Cause 50 Times More CO2 Emissions Than Others
A request made using ChatGPT consumes 10 times the electricity of a Google search, highlighting the environmental impact of AI technology that many are unaware of.