Co-presented with James Camilleri (Scott Logic) at Green Tech South West’s 50th event, “Greener AI and Embedding Sustainability in the Digital Enterprise”, which also featured Joanne Thurlow of Bristol Waste.
A talk on the environmental impact of large language models and AI systems, drawing on a wide-ranging literature review of academic and industry sources. It covered AI’s lifecycle emissions, from energy-intensive training to the often-overlooked impact of inference at scale, the frameworks and tools researchers use to measure AI’s footprint, and practical strategies for greener AI, along with the challenges the industry still faces.
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