Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613630/training-a-single-ai-model-can-emit-as-much-carbon-as-five-cars-in-their-lifetimes/?utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social_share&utm_content=2020-01-31

The artificial-intelligence industry is often compared to the oil industry: once mined and refined, data, like oil, can be a highly lucrative commodity. Now it seems the metaphor may extend even further. Like its fossil-fuel counterpart, the process of deep learning has an outsize environmental impact.