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12. Related Documents
Standards, research, and sources referenced by the methodology.
Greenpixie Methodologies
- Greenpixie, Methodology for Cloud Emission Measurement.
Standards and Protocols
- World Resources Institute, GHG Protocol Scope 2 Guidance: An Amendment to the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard, 2015.
- International Organization for Standardization, ISO 14064-1:2018.
- International Organization for Standardization, ISO 14064-3:2019.
AI Inference Energy Measurement
- Jegham, N. et al., How Hungry is AI? Benchmarking Energy, Water and Carbon Footprint of LLM Inference, arXiv:2505.09598, 2025.
- Luccioni, A. S., Jernite, Y. and Strubell, E., Power Hungry Processing: Watts Driving the Cost of AI Deployment?, arXiv:2311.16863, 2024.
- Fernandez, J. et al., Energy Considerations of Large Language Model Inference and Efficiency Optimizations, Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025.
- Samsi, S. et al., From Words to Watts: Benchmarking the Energy Costs of Large Language Model Inference, arXiv:2310.03003, 2023.
- Stojkovic, J. et al., Towards Greener LLMs: Bringing Energy-Efficiency to the Forefront of LLM Inference, arXiv:2403.20306, 2024.
- EcoLogits, LLM Inference Methodology, accessed August 2026.
Model and Provider Disclosures
- Google, Measuring the Environmental Impact of Delivering AI at Google Scale, 2025.
- Mistral AI, Our Contribution to a Global Environmental Standard for AI, 2025.
- Patterson, D. et al., The Carbon Footprint of Machine Learning Training Will Plateau, Then Shrink, arXiv:2204.05149, 2022.
Model Scale and Architecture
- Epoch AI, Notable AI Models, accessed August 2026.
- Hoffmann, J. et al., Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models, arXiv:2203.15556, 2022.
- Artificial Analysis, Independent Analysis of AI Models and Providers, accessed August 2026.
Lifecycle Assessment and Embodied Emissions
- Boavizta, Methodologies for Digital Environmental Impact Assessment, accessed August 2026.
- Boavizta, Boavizta API: Embedded Impacts Methodology, accessed August 2026.
Water
- Li, P. et al., Making AI Less "Thirsty": Uncovering and Addressing the Secret Water Footprint of AI Models, ACM, 2025.
- World Resources Institute, Guidance for Calculating Water Use Embedded in Purchased Electricity, 2020.
Sector Context
- International Energy Agency, Energy and AI, 2025.
- MIT Technology Review, We Did the Math on AI's Energy Footprint. Here's the Story You Haven't Heard, 2025.
Instrumentation and Serving
- NVIDIA, NVIDIA Management Library (NVML) Reference, accessed August 2026.