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Women In Sustainability Panel at Sustainability Live Climate Week NYC
Our researchers have published AI chip designs that are 14 times more energy efficient and in August we released plans for new chips and accelerators to handle AI on mainframes . We also source clean energy for much of our own AI training and inferencing . 74 % of the electricity consumed in our data centres last year came from renewable sources and 28 of our data centres are supplied with 100 % renewable electricity .
IBM ’ s sustainability software was also able to reduce the excess , standby “ headroom ” in one of our own AI workloads from the equivalent of 23 to 13 graphics processing units ( GPUs ), significantly lowering energy usage and freeing up high-demand GPUs for other purposes – with zero reduction in performance .
IBM even created a Green Data Center along with Syracuse University and New York State to research how energyefficient technologies can reduce energy costs and environmental impact . We are also a member of the Green Software Foundation and launched an AI working group within The Green Grid to work with industry peers in advancing the sustainability of AI .
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