How Salesforce’s New System Achieves AI Sustainability

The environmental cost of AI is emerging as a pressing concern for the technology sector, as its rapid adoption drives demand for computing power and energy resources worldwide.

Since data centres are the pillars of AI infrastructure, consuming substantial quantities of electricity and water for processing and cooling and these facilities, the absence of standardised measurements for AI energy consumption has hindered efforts to assess and address these environmental impacts – leading technology companies to have approached the challenge independently, resulting in fragmented reporting and difficulty in comparing the efficiency of different AI models.

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