https://taxonomy.eticas.ai/risk/inference-energy-consumption
Maturity: emerging
High energy use during deployment and inference, increasing environmental impact and infrastructure costs.
This subcategory is emerging. It has not yet been validated through established assessment methods.
System type: ADM and LLM systems
Lifecycle stages: Post Processing
| Framework | Reference |
|---|---|
| NIST AI 600-1 — Generative AI Risk Profile | Environmental Impacts (compute resource utilization in operation) |
| Framework | Reference |
|---|---|
| MIT AI Risk Repository | Environmental harm (carbon and water footprints of inference) |
Source: HRA project taxonomy