AI and the hidden climate cost of ‘dark data’
Training and fine-tuning AI models requires troves of data, but storing and processing that data is financially and environmentally costly. Here are three ways to address the problem....
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Per Espen Stoknes is a full member of the Club of Rome and one of the six authors of Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity. He led the modeling teams from the Stockholm Resilience Centre, the BI Norwegian Business School, and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, who carried out the research behind the book. He was previously a Member of the Norwegian Parliament for the Green Party and has co-founded several cleantech companies.
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Training and fine-tuning AI models requires troves of data, but storing and processing that data is financially and environmentally costly. Here are three ways to address the problem....
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