Facebook disclose the carbon footprint of their new LLaMA models

Facebook used 2.6 million KWh hours of electricity and emitted 1,000 tons of CO2 when developing their new LLaMA models.

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Facebook recently released four new language models called LLaMA, which outperform GPT-3 — ChatGPT’s underlying language model — on a number of tasks.

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Kasper Groes Albin Ludvigsen

I write about time series forecasting, sustainable data science and green software engineering