<ul><li>A new technical paper titled "Life-Cycle Emissions of AI Hardware: A Cradle-To-Grave Approach and Generational Trends" was published by researchers at Google.</li><li>The paper presents a comprehensive life-cycle assessment (LCA) of greenhouse gas emissions for AI hardware accelerators, including manufacturing emissions.</li><li>The study introduces a new metric called compute carbon intensity (CCI) to evaluate AI hardware sustainability and estimates the carbon footprint of training and inference.</li><li>The research highlights the improvements in CCI from TPU v4i to TPU v6e, and emphasizes the importance of software advancements in leveraging and amplifying these gains.</li></ul>

Cradle-To-Grave Analysis Of The Carbon Footprint of AI Hardware (Google)

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