Some of your AI queries can emit 50 times more CO₂ than . . . Though Cogito reached a high accuracy of 84 9%, it came with a carbon cost nearly three times that of other models of similar size The study found that reasoning-heavy models generated an average
Balancing accuracy and emissions: the climate cost of your AI Reasoning models, on average, created 543 5 ‘thinking’ tokens per question, whereas concise models required just 37 7 tokens More tokens mean higher CO₂ emissions, but it doesn’t always
Is ChatGPT Bad for the Environment? What AI’s . . . - Medium Each query you make — as small as it may seem — adds to the climate cost of its growth could come at a steep ecological cost by thinking about your own role Limit unnecessary queries