Building Sustainable AI/ML Solutions in the Cloud with Federated Learning

Global warming is on the rise due to the presence of the highest levels of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide levels compared to the past. Data Scientists, data engineers, and cloud experts all have come forward to create a more sustainable environment by following the best practices in Machine Learning. Machine Learning models create a detrimental effect on the environment when using substantial computational resources and energy while getting trained for thousands of hours on specialized hardware accelerators in data centers. The average temperature rise has been increasing steadily over the last 3 decades (from 1980), as illustrated in the figure below. All popular Meteorological agencies/bodies show similar trends, which have made environmentalists, geologists, and technology experts in different domains come forward and set certain standards for controlling the temperature rise.