Creating an AI can be five times worse for the planet than a car, by Donna Lu, on 6 June 2019, NewScientist
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Training artificial intelligence is an energy intensive process. New estimates suggest that the carbon footprint of training a single AI is as much as 284 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent – five times the lifetime emissions of an average car.