Green Research Computing
Tips, tools, and techniques for evaluating and minimizing the environmental impacts of computational research.
Tools for Measuring AI Impacts
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AI Emission CalculatorAn interactive tool to help you estimate your energy emissions and water use from interacting with different generative AI models.
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AI Energy Score LeaderboardHuggingface leaderboard covering a variety of generative AI models, ranked by energy consumption.
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AI Power MeterLibrary that lets you easily monitor energy usage of machine learning programs. It uses RAPL for the CPU and nvidia-smi for the GPU.
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Carbontracker.infoPython package to measure the carbon footprint of machine learning models.
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Eco2AIEco2AI is a python library for CO2 emission tracking. It monitors energy consumption of CPU & GPU devices and estimates equivalent carbon emissions taking into account the regional emission coefficient.
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EcoLogitsEcoLogits tracks the energy consumption and environmental impacts of using generative AI models through APIs. It supports major LLM providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral AI and more.
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Green Algorithms AI CalculatorA version of the Green Algorithms carbon footprint calculator tailored for measuring AI training jobs.
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ML.ENERGY LeaderboardThe goal of the ML.ENERGY Leaderboard is to give people a sense of how much energy LLMs would consume, and the complex tradeoffs between energy, system performance, and user experience.
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ML CO₂ ImpactGPU carbon footprint measurement for machine learning tasks. From the makers of CodeCarbon. Includes a LaTeX template to be used for reporting carbon emissions in ML-related publications.
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Model ComparisonsComparison of popular NLP and computer vision models by carbon intensity and by region.
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ZEUS: Deep Learning Energy Measurement and OptimizationZeus is a library for measuring the energy consumption of Deep Learning workloads and for optimizing their energy consumption. Part of the ML.ENERGY initiative.
Last Updated: Nov 20, 2025 4:03 PM
Subjects: Engineering, Science
Tags: computation, research, sustainability