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Training Costs and Energy: The Hidden Price of Teaching an AI

Training Costs and Energy: The Hidden Price of Teaching an AI

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Mirko Peters
Apr 28, 2025
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Artificial intelligence has changed industries, but training it is costly. Training costs include money and lots of energy use. For example, training OpenAI’s GPT-3 used 1,287 megawatt-hours of power. This created 552 tons of CO2, like 123 gas cars in a year. One AI model can make as much CO2 as five cars over their lifetimes. These numbers show how AI …

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