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Artificial intelligence training is powered mostly by fossil fuels, according to one of the largest studies of its kind. Less than 25 per cent of AIs use low-carbon energy sources such as hydroelectricity and nuclear power during training.
鈥淧eople see AI to be this intangible thing that lives in the cloud,鈥 says at Hugging Face, a company that develops tools for sharing AI code and data sets. 鈥淏ut behind AI models, there are layers and layers of hardware and tech, all of which have an impact…



