Lassad Elmoubarki

How Hungry is AI? Benchmarking Energy, Water, and Carbon Footprint of LLM Inference

2025 · arXiv (Cornell University)

This paper introduces an infrastructure-aware benchmarking framework for quantifying the environmental footprint of LLM inference across 30 state-of-the-art models in commercial datacenters. The framework combines public API performance data with company-specific environmental multipliers and statistical …