Environmental Impact of Generative and Agentic AI: An in-Depth Analysis and Green Solutions
The analysis indicates that inference can rival or exceed training energy over a deployment lifetime, and that agentic workflows can multiply the energy of equivalent single-pass inference by one to several orders of magnitude depending on the number of model and tool calls.
Abderaouf Bahi, Amel Ourici, Ibtissem Gasmi
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