Definition
Environmental impact of running LLMs, especially increased carbon emissions which impact the corporate social responsibility and ESG outcomes for the organisation.
Controls & guardrails that address this
4Grouped by control function, with the AI lifecycle stage(s) to apply each and the other risks it addresses. Filter by control category below.
Include compute carbon footprint assessment in use case intake. Set energy efficiency thresholds as intake criterion.
Select model architecture based on energy efficiency profile. Prefer lighter architectures where accuracy requirements permit.
Use a pre-trained foundation model rather than training from scratch to reduce carbon cost.
Track compute consumption and energy use in production against declared thresholds. Escalate when carbon budget is breached.