According to CaiLian, a study published October 10 in the journal Joule suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) may have a greater environmental impact than previously thought. The study found that AI ends up consuming as much energy each year as countries like the Netherlands and Sweden, if not more, potentially undermining global efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Research firm SemiAnalysis says OpenAI needs 3,617 NVIDIA's HGX A100 servers and a total of 28,936 graphics processing units (GPUs) to support ChatGPT, which means 564 megawatt-hours of energy per day, which is much higher than the energy demand during the training phase.

According to IT House reported on October 12, according to the Digiconomist website founder published a paper in the journal Joule on October 10, it is believed that generative AI represented by ChatGPT and Bing Chat will produce a huge energy footprint and may exceed the electricity demand of some countries in the future. "Given the growing demand for AI services, AI-related energy consumption is likely to increase significantly in the coming years," said the paper's author, Alex de Vries from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, highlighting that by 2027, the energy consumed by generative AI could provide a small country with electricity for one year, equivalent to about 85-134 terawatt hours (TWh).

According to a report from the AIGC open community on September 27, SAP, the world's number one ERP vendor, announced on its official website that it has launched the generative AI assistant Joule and integrated it into product matrices such as procurement, supply chain, sales, human resources, marketing, and data analysis. , helping customers reduce costs and increase efficiency. It is reported that Joule is a product with functions similar to ChatGPT. It can automatically generate various contents, analyze data, etc. through text question and answer methods. At the same time, it combines SAP's cloud platform, Business AI and other intelligent products to provide customers with cross-platform and application personalized features. Generative AI services.