ML CO2 Impact

Overview

ML CO2 Impact is an online calculator from researchers at Mila and Element AI for estimating the carbon emissions of machine learning workloads. It converts GPU hours, hardware type and cloud region into kilograms of CO2 equivalent using provider carbon efficiency and offset data, integrates with the CodeCarbon Python library, and publishes a LaTeX template so authors can report the emissions of their experiments in papers, blog posts and publications. The site also provides guidance on choosing a cloud provider and region, avoiding grid search and pushing for more transparency about AI emissions.

Use cases

• Estimate CO2e of ML training runs
• Report experiment emissions in publications
• Compare cloud regions for carbon efficiency
• Integrate carbon estimates with CodeCarbon

Sources

• ML CO2 Impact calculator
• ML CO2 Impact repository
• ML CO2 Impact MIT licence