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6c-06
Ec

Energy

Severity5/10

Energy Cost

Significant environmental impact derived from massive energy consumption during training and inference of large-scale models, with its corresponding carbon footprint.

Periodic recordEnvironmentarXiv2022

Dafeng Zhu, Bo Yang, Yuxiang Liu, Zhaojian Wang, Kai Ma, Xinping Guan

Mitigation Strategy

Optimization of architectures for energy efficiency, use of specialized low-power hardware (efficient TPUs), migration to renewable energy sources, and Model Distillation techniques.

Atomic Number

6

Ec

Risk ID

c-06

Severity

5/10

Severity Level

6
Environment
c-06
Ec

Energy

Energy Cost

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Environment • #6

Energy Cost

Ec
Severity Level5/10

Definition

Significant environmental impact derived from massive energy consumption during training and inference of large-scale models, with its corresponding carbon footprint.

Mitigation Strategy

Optimization of architectures for energy efficiency, use of specialized low-power hardware (efficient TPUs), migration to renewable energy sources, and Model Distillation techniques.

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