Training resource consumption

https://taxonomy.eticas.ai/risk/training-resource-consumption

Maturity: emerging

Significant carbon emissions, energy use, and water consumption associated with model training, particularly for large-scale foundation models.

This subcategory is emerging. It has not yet been validated through established assessment methods.

System type: ADM and LLM systems
Lifecycle stages: In Processing

Mappings to external frameworks

Standards & frameworks

Framework Reference
NIST AI 600-1 — Generative AI Risk Profile Environmental Impacts (compute resource utilization in training)

Taxonomies & vocabularies

Framework Reference
MIT AI Risk Repository Environmental harm (training carbon and water footprints)

Source: HRA project taxonomy