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

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 …