5. Take a greener approach to AI and software tools

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be used in ways that help deliver a range of environmental benefits. For example, it might allow us to monitor processes to identify opportunities to make them more efficient, or to reduce waste.

However, AI comes at an environmental cost. This includes things like:

• high energy consumption for the training of models
• large water use for cooling
• potential pollution from the mining of raw materials for AI chips.
• discarded hardware creating electronic waste

Actions

5a. Take a green approach to AI used by the service
5b. Take a green approach to AI tools used by the team
5c. Use greener software tools

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Environmental benefits

Efficiency