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12. Related Documents

Standards, research, and sources referenced by the methodology.

Greenpixie Methodologies

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.

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