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Mistral's new "environmental audit" shows how much AI is hurting the planet
Individual prompts don’t cost much, but billions together can have aggregate impact.
The results, which are broadly in line with estimates from previous scholarly work, suggest the environmental harm of any single AI query is relatively small compared to many other common Internet tasks. To generate a life-cycle analysis of its "Large 2" model after just under 18 months of existence, Mistral partnered with sustainability consultancy Carbone 4 and the French Agency for Ecological Transition. Compared to those previous third-party estimates, the fact that Mistral provided information directly for this latest study definitely lends some additional weight to its reported numbers.
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