The carbon footprint of GPT-4

Recently leaked data allows us for the first time to estimate the carbon emissions from training OpenAI’s GPT-4

Kasper Groes Albin Ludvigsen
Towards Data Science
7 min readJul 18, 2023

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With recent news alerting us that global average temperatures keep rising [1] it’s important to remind ourselves that most human activities have a carbon footprint that contributes towards global warming and other climate…

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