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CIO.com · October 22, 2026 · On the brief until November 5, 2026

The same AI question emits more carbon dioxide in Texas than in Sweden

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THE AI ANGLE
Emitting different amounts of carbon dioxide across geographic regions

Berget AI and environmental researchers released an open-source method to calculate carbon dioxide emissions from AI requests. The tool reveals that identical queries on the same hardware produce 0.4 grams of carbon dioxide in Sweden compared to 3.2 grams in Texas. This enables organizations to evaluate and compare the regional emissions of different AI models.

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Identical computing hardware yields widely different emission levels based solely on the geographic location of the request.

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