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Explained: Generative AI’s environmental impact - MIT News
2025年1月17日 · Plus, generative AI models have an especially short shelf-life, driven by rising demand for new AI applications. Companies release new models every few weeks, so the energy used to train prior versions goes to waste, Bashir adds. New models often consume more energy for training, since they usually have more parameters than their predecessors.
The role of modeling in the energy transition - MIT News
2025年1月7日 · EIA is the statistical and analytic agency within the U.S. Department of Energy, with a mission to collect, analyze, and disseminate independent and impartial energy information to help stakeholders make better-informed decisions. Although EIA analyzes the impacts of energy policies, the agency does not make or advise on policy itself.
Study shows how households can cut energy costs - MIT News
2025年1月13日 · In the U.S., separate research has shown that about three in 10 households report trouble paying energy bills. To conduct the experiment, the researchers ran two versions of an energy coaching intervention. In one version, 67 households received one report on their energy usage, along with coaching about how to increase energy efficiency.
The multifaceted challenge of powering AI - MIT News
2025年1月21日 · The sudden need for more data centers to power AI presents a massive challenge to the technology and energy industries, government policymakers, and everyday consumers. Researchers at the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) are …
Energy | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2025年1月30日 · MIT Climate and Energy Ventures class spins out entrepreneurs — and successful companies. The course challenges students to commercialize technologies and ideas in one whirlwind semester. Alumni of the class have founded more than 150 companies. January 28, 2025. Read full story →
A nonflammable battery to power a safer, decarbonized future
2024年11月21日 · Now Alsym Energy has developed a nonflammable, nontoxic alternative to lithium-ion batteries to help renewables like wind and solar bridge the gap in a broader range of sectors. The company’s electrodes use relatively stable, abundant materials, and its electrolyte is primarily water with some nontoxic add-ons.
Ensuring a durable transition - MIT News
2024年11月15日 · And one-in-16 new jobs nationwide were in clean energy, with clean energy jobs growing more than three times faster than job growth economy-wide” In this rapid expansion, the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) is prioritizing economically marginalized places, according to Zoe Lipman, lead for good jobs and labor standards in the Office of Energy ...
Tackling the energy revolution, one sector at a time
2024年11月8日 · “Folks in the industry know that some kind of energy transition needs to happen, but they may not necessarily know for certain what the most viable path forward is,” says Liang. Although there is no singular avenue to zero emissions, the new model provides a way to further quantify and assess at least one slice of pie to aid decision-making.
Energy, war, and the crisis in Ukraine - MIT News
2022年12月13日 · The forum’s two featured speakers both discussed energy issues as well as the larger course of the war. Margarita Balmaceda, a professor of diplomacy and international relations at Seton Hall University and an associate of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, listed three key aspects of the energy issue implicated in the invasion.
Photonic processor could enable ultrafast AI computations with …
2024年12月2日 · Researchers developed a fully integrated photonic processor that can perform all the key computations of a deep neural network on a photonic chip, using light. This advance could improve the speed and energy-efficiency of running intensive deep learning models for applications like lidar, astronomical research, and navigation.