arXiv AI

Green SARC: Predictive Cost and Carbon Governance for Agentic AI Systems

arXiv:2606. 15954v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic AI systems act through tools and sub-agents, yet the controls meant to bound their financial and environmental cost still sit on dashboards evaluated beside or after execution.

arXiv AI
Oct 27

Locked In: Multi-Objective RL for the AI Data Center Build-Out

The paper introduces a multi-objective reinforcement learning framework for planning AI data center build-outs, treating the long-term infrastructure decisions as a tiered Markov decision process. It proposes a preference-conditioned agent that can generate policies balancing cost, carbon, water, and reliability, and validates the approach on real site data across different commitment regimes. The study also presents a lightweight counterfactual rollout model to assess long-horizon dynamics and releases the associated environment, agents, and evaluation tools.

By Satyapragnya Kar, Rajarshi Das, PR Panigrahi
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 1

Certified Speculative Execution for Untrusted AI Agents

arXiv:2606. 31023v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hard-constrained sequential decision systems have no certified way to spend the test-time compute of modern AI: executing the multi-step drafts of a learned policy or a frozen LLM forfeits the feasibility guarantee a trusted solver provides, while invoking the solver at every step forfeits the speed the AI offers.

By Chenyu Zhou, Qiliang Jiang, Shuning Wu, Xu Zhou
arXiv AI
Jul 9

The Harness Effect: How Orchestration Design Sets the Token Economics of Enterprise Agentic AI

arXiv:2607. 06906v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI development today runs on token maxing: buying capability with tokens -- longer reasoning traces, more turns, wider tool payloads, bigger replayed contexts -- so tokens per task grow faster than task value.

By Muayad Sayed Ali, Aliaksandra Novik, Anji Boddupally, Artem Yavorskyi, Chris Nickerson, Daniel Rica, Emily DuGranrut, Felix Leung, Garrett Prince, Grace Barnett, Heath Robinson, Hosain Al Ahmad, Jesse Resnick, Juan Carlos Farah, Jyothi Swaroop Meruga, Leonid Kuznetsov, Luke Gorham, Marie Schmoll, Michael Paciullo, Saumya Das, Sharath Sheripally, Tommy Griscom, Mykyta Osadchyi, Neha Mantri, Nick Westrum, Olivia Benowitz, Parikshith Kulkarni, Radik Chernyshov, Rakshith Vasudev, Rohith Nadimpally, Vikas Gangadevi, Waseem AlShikh
arXiv AI
Oct 19

Accounting for Purchased Artificial Intelligence Inference in Corporate Greenhouse Gas Inventories: A Token-Based Method

The paper proposes a token‑based method for including purchased AI inference in corporate Scope 3 greenhouse gas inventories, offering a structured four‑term factor that accounts for serving electricity, embodied hardware, data‑centre construction, and disclosed training runs. It provides an open dataset with cradle‑to‑gate boundaries, four tiers of activity data, and a rule to map model identifiers and regions to specific factors, revealing up to twelve‑fold variation between model classes and nine‑fold variation between regions. Example calculations show annual emissions of 8.5 kg CO₂e for a 200‑person firm and 2.1–8.3 t CO₂e for developers using mid‑class or frontier‑class models, respectively.

By Guillermo Llopis-Garcia (SOMA AI, Barcelona)