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The ECO2AI library for ML model carbon footprint monitoring

Sberbank

Sberbank is the largest bank in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, one of the leading financial institutions globally.

Project description

The library is intended to monitor the carbon footprint of the AI model training process. It determines available computing resources and calculates how much energy was consumed in the training process, and equivalent CO₂ emissions, taking regional standards into account.

Project detail

region
Country, region and city of project implementation

International project

industry
Industry

esg
Component (E,S,G)

E

deadline
Implementation deadlines

2022

budget
Project budget

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premises
Project background

Growing energy consumption on AI model training and corresponding growth in the carbon footprint. Absence of tools allowing to measure or manage this issue.

targets
Project goals and objectives

The goal is to create a library that would track energy consumption and carbon footprint, thereby encouraging the DS community to develop computer-optimal machine-learning architectures. Objectives: develop a carbon footprint calculation methodology, create the library, publish the library on an open-source basis.

audience
Target audience of the project

Companies and teams that train AI models.

events
Activities within the project

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achievements
Achievements and results

24+ thousand downloads

world
Connection of the project with the UN SDGs
Energy
Goal 7 : Energy
Climate Action
Goal 13 : Climate Action
nation
Connection of the project with national goals

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nations project
Connection of the project with national projects

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