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pith:X746ISEH

pith:2025:X746ISEHKMXANLMCS7OXBEVI5I

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Measuring the environmental impact of delivering AI at Google Scale

Amin Vahdat, Ben Gomes, Ben Townsend, Cooper Elsworth, David Patterson, Ian Schneider, James Manyika, Jeff Dean, Keguo Huang, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Robert Sedivy, Savannah Goodman

arxiv:2508.15734 v1 · 2025-08-21 · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:57:17.904628Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

bff9e44887532e06ad8297dd7092a8ea3ca4e2598b5be56147b1b637a8c76fe5

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arxiv: 2508.15734 · arxiv_version: 2508.15734v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.15734 · pith_short_12: X746ISEHKMXA · pith_short_16: X746ISEHKMXANLMC · pith_short_8: X746ISEH

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/X746ISEHKMXANLMCS7OXBEVI5I \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: bff9e44887532e06ad8297dd7092a8ea3ca4e2598b5be56147b1b637a8c76fe5

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-21T17:22:06Z",
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  },
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