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The same AI query can emit 12 times more carbon depending on the cloud region

Two choices you already make as a developer, the region and the model size, move the estimate more than anything else. I am CTO of SOMA AI, which publishes the dataset used here. When we built our emission factors for AI inference, I expected the model to be the whole story. It is not. The place wh…

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  1. 2026-11-10 13:37 · DEV Community — AI
    The same AI query can emit 12 times more carbon depending on the cloud region

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