Claire BoardmanJan 29, 2023
Mél Hogan 🏳️‍🌈😷
For a long time I’ve been writing about the environmental impacts of data centers— what can I read to better understand how that extends to LLM and AI more specifically? #enviro #environmentalmedia #datacenters #LLM #AI
Jan 29, 2023 at 12:32amWeb
Show threadNima BoscarinoJan 29, 2023

@mel_hogan A lot of Sasha Luccioni's (https://twitter.com/sashamtl) work is about this! Some examples that might be relevant for you:

- https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3531146.3533234
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.02001
- https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09700
- https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3485128

Dr. Sasha Luccioni 💻🌎✨🤗 (@SashaMTL) / Twitter

Research Scientist @HuggingFace, Board of @WiMLworkshop, @NatGeo explorer. She/her/Dr. • Actually a butterfly 🦋

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Show threadMél Hogan 🏳️‍🌈😷Jan 29, 2023
@nima thank you!
Show threadPedro Jorge Romero 🇮🇨Jan 31, 2023
@mel_hogan Oh, that’s interesting. Can you point to your writing about that? Thanks!
Show threadMél Hogan 🏳️‍🌈😷Jan 31, 2023
@pjorge yes melhogan.com has a bunch of links but also check out this open biblio with folks working on critical data center studies! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bnbDNTXlpddbfuShMgRKWvWLFIKUKBchUkluMMOVRkw/edit
Critical Data Center Studies

Critical AI [infrastructure and the environment] Bridle, James Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence Farrar, Straus and Giroux (June 21, 2022) Crawford, Kate Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence Yale Univer...

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Show threadPedro Jorge Romero 🇮🇨Feb 1, 2023

@mel_hogan That’s great. Thanks a lot!

I’ll dive into that

Show threadPedro Jorge Romero 🇮🇨Feb 1, 2023

@mel_hogan Oh, what a great resource. I will keep me busy for a while 😀

Thanks again!