Training a Neural Network Can Emit More Than 600,000 Pounds of CO2. But Not for Long.

A new technique for training and running a neural network, proposed by researchers at MIT, has a much smaller carbon footprint

Drew Costley
OneZero
Published in
4 min readMay 15, 2020

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Illustration: Jaedoo Lee

Training and running A.I. at scale requires server farms filled with thousands of computer servers. It takes a…

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Drew Costley
OneZero

Drew Costley is a Staff Writer at FutureHuman covering the environment, health, science and tech. Previously @ SFGate, East Bay Express, USA Today, etc.