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Why can equal AI training compute produce different carbon emissions?

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  1. Parameter names change emissions
  2. Only model accuracy matters
  3. Infrastructure and location matter

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References

  1. Carbon Emissions and Large Neural Network Training arxiv.org/abs/2104.10350 Checked 2026-10-10.

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