arXiv:2608. 09998v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have become powerful tools for supporting and automating complex human tasks.
By Samar Garrab, Sarra Boughriou, Manel BenSassi
arXiv:2607. 01258v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been accompanied by significant increases in computational and environmental costs, driven by large-scale investments in AI infrastructure, hardware, and software.
By Cl\'ement Morand, Aur\'elie N\'ev\'eol, Anne-Laure Ligozat
arXiv:2602. 00056v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large-scale data has fuelled the success of frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models over the past decade.
By Sophia N. Wilson, Sebastian Mair, Mophat Okinyi, Erik B. Dam, Janin Koch, Raghavendra Selvan
arXiv:2606. 10660v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI inference services -- API subscriptions, enterprise chat tools, and SaaS products with embedded AI features -- fall unambiguously within Scope 3 Category 1 under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which requires disclosure for fiscal years starting January 2024.
By Guillermo Llopis (SOMA AI, Barcelona)
arXiv:2606. 14707v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI training and deployment consume substantial electricity, but carbon outcomes remain weakly integrated into routine model development decisions.
By Yuxin Chen (University of Helsinki, Finland), Hao Gao (Independent Researcher), Chujie Zou (University of Helsinki, Finland)
arXiv:2502. 20016v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Sustainability encompasses three key facets: economic, environmental, and social.
By Pedram Bakhtiarifard, P{\i}nar T\"oz\"un, Christian Igel, Raghavendra Selvan
arXiv:2607. 09084v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid expansion of large-scale AI models has led to significant performance breakthroughs across diverse domains, yet it has also raised critical concerns regarding computational costs, energy consumption, and environmental sustainability.
By Linhui Xiao, Guiping Cao, Mingyue Guo, Xianchao Guan, Fan Yang, Ming Tao, Xin Li, Yuxin Peng, Yaowei Wang
arXiv:2509. 20241v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As AI inference scales to billions of queries, estimates of per-query energy use are increasingly important for capacity planning, efficiency interventions, and policy.
By Felipe Oviedo, Fiodar Kazhamiaka, Esha Choukse, Allen Kim, Amy Luers, Melanie Nakagawa, Ricardo Bianchini, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
arXiv:2509. 24517v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Development of modern deep learning methods has been driven primarily by the push for improving model efficacy (accuracy metrics), leading to large-scale models that require massive computational resources and result in considerable carbon footprint across the model lifecycle.
By Sophia N. Wilson, Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen, Raghavendra Selvan
arXiv:2412. 03716v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) computing and data centers consume large amounts of freshwater, both directly for cooling and indirectly for electricity generation.
By Noah Shumba, Opelo Tshekiso, Pengfei Li, Giulia Fanti, Shaolei Ren
arXiv:2606. 27841v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The widespread adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has led to increasing concerns about energy consumption, yet there is a lack of standardized methodologies to accurately estimate AI inference energy consumption, particularly across various tasks and architectures.
By Adrien Sardi, Marie-Line Alberi Morel, Sara Alouf, Fr\'ed\'eric Giroire, Joanna Moulierac
arXiv:2608. 14359v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The sustainability constraints of FLaaS consumers pose significant challenges to maintaining carbon-feasible federated training in FLaaS environments.
By Keya Patel, Sajib Mistry, Sheik Fattah, Deepak Kanneganti, Aneesh Krishna, Mufti Mahmud, Monowar Bhuyan