🍾 Happy new year !

To kick off 2025 we want to talk about an important topic for us: matching scientific and technological excellence with environmental responsibility 🌱

GenerativeAI is a powerful tool, bringing us new ways to work and live, in our everyday life. It is as powerful as impressive- if used right -to solve simple and complex topics. However, this has an environmental cost ; just a simple request uses 1 litre of water, and 1 hour of use requires enough energy to power 14 LED lightbulbs.

🪫 The energy consumption of artificial intelligence is skyrocketing with the craze for generative AI, although there is a lack of data provided by companies.

🤖 Interactions with AIs like ChatGPT could consume 10 times more electricity than a standard Google search, according to the International Energy Agency (IAE).

🇸🇪 The increase in electricity consumption by data centres, cryptocurrencies and AI between 2022 and 2026 could be equivalent to the electricity consumption of Sweden or Germany.

🪨 AI’s carbon footprint is far from negligible, with scientists estimating that training the BLOOM AI model emits 10 times more greenhouse gases than a French person in a year.

💧 It seems complex to reduce the energy consumption of AI, making it essential to promote moderation in the future.