"As the BigScience project in France demonstrated with #BLOOM model3, it is possible to build a model of a similar size to #OpenAI’s GPT-3 with a much lower carbon footprint. But that’s not what’s happening in the industry at large."
Legislators should offer both carrots and sticks. At the outset, they could set benchmarks for #energy and #water use, incentivize the adoption of renewable energy and mandate comprehensive environmental reporting & impact assessments."