Evidence-backed signal

Energy and carbon intensity became explicit metrics in AI infrastructure and large-model training announcements, but Q2 evidence does not establish electricity supply as a binding AI compute bottleneck.

supported inference 83% confidence increasing

Downward provenance

event

Meta releases OPT-175B for controlled research access

Tue May 03 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
99% confidence
artifact

OPT-175B research release

controlled_model_release
art-opt-175b-20220503
original source

OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models

arXiv
src-arxiv-opt-20220502