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CHIEF SUSTAINABILITY OFFICER: KATE BRANDT FOUNDED: 1998 EMPLOYEES: 180,000 HEADQUARTERS: CALIFORNIA, US
Improving AI’ s energy efficiency is key to solving the world’ s biggest challenges,” says Kate Brandt, Chief Sustainability Officer at Google, on LinkedIn.
The company has released a comprehensive methodology for measuring the energy and water impact of its AI models to help improve the transparency of AI’ s impact.
“ By sharing our methodology, we hope to contribute to collective understanding and drive industry-wide progress towards more efficient and beneficial AI for everyone— including the planet,” Kate says. Google serves AI on its own Tensor Processing Units( TPUs). Newer TPU generations focus on better priceperformance and throughput for training and serving, which translates into more AI output for a given power budget when deployed well.
Google’ s Gemini range includes lighter models such as Gemini 1.5 Flash and 2.5 Flash-Lite that are explicitly optimised for speed and efficiency. Using smaller, right-sized models lowers electricity per task and reduces the need for oversized server runs. Google is also enabling 1 MW IT racks and liquid cooling through Open Compute Project work, so more of a data centre’ s electricity goes to useful compute rather than fans and chillers.
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