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GenAI: Giga$$$, TeraWatt-Hours, and GigaTons of CO2

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 66, Issue 8
August 2023
106 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/3610954
  • Editor:
  • James Larus
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