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by londons_explore
1095 days ago
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The problem is, as soon as it's a law, there will be some official way to calculate it, penalties for misreporting, perhaps even a professional who must audit the energy use. Etc. Getting that number gets expensive! Whereas if it is a company voluntarily reporting it, the number would just be number of GPUs * wattage of GPUs / tokens generated past year = energy per token. |
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But... have you seen the state of GDPR enforcement? Anyone who made an honest effort is fine. I don't know of any GDPR enforcement action where the indicted company wasn't blatantly and willfully violating or ignoring the law.
FWIW, everything I've seen from regulators and the legislators involved in the nitty-gritty of the act seems to suggest that most of them are really smart people who know what they don't know. They know that AI is quickly evolving and the draft of the law goes out of its way to _not_ be too specific about _how_ to comply. E.g., I would not expect the EU (or national regulators) to bring down 'one right way' to report energy consumption.
The fact that they COULD still bothers me.