Facebook used 2.6 million KWh hours of electricity and emitted 1,000 tons of CO2 when developing their new LLaMA models. — Facebook recently released four new language models called LLaMA, which outperform GPT-3 — ChatGPT’s underlying language model — on a number of tasks. Following a recent trend on resource consumption transparency in LLM training, Facebook estimate the electricity consumption and carbon footprint of their models in the paper published on…