AI Compute and the Environment

Coherent AI-related policymaking will require an understanding of AI computing capacities and their environmental impact, particularly for supercomputing technologies.

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A blueprint for building national compute capacity for artificial intelligence

no country today has data on, or a targeted plan for, national AI compute capacity. This policy blind-spot may jeopardise domestic economic goals.

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The AI footprint

Measuring the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence computing and applications: The AI footprint

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Measuring compute capacity: a critical step to capturing AI’s full economic potential

Many governments neither know what compute capacity their countries have, nor what they need, to realise their AI plans and fully benefit from the development and use of AI in their countries.

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A responsible AI strategy for climate action

Recommendations for government action ahead of COP26 from the Centre for AI and Climate Change, Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, and Climate Change AI.