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Google's seventh-generation Ironwood TPU achieves a 3.7x improvement in Compute Carbon Intensity (CCI) compared to TPU v5p, demonstrating significant carbon efficiency gains in AI infrastructure.
•CCI measures CO2 equivalent emitted per utilized floating-point operation (CO2e/FLOP), covering full lifecycle emissions including manufacturing, transportation, and operations.
•Ironwood delivers a 5x improvement in utilized FLOPs across generations from TPU v5p, allowing the carbon cost per operation to drop significantly as performance scales faster than emissions.
•TPU v5e achieved a 43% reduction in total CCI over 15 months (to 228 gCO2e/EFLOP) driven by a 72% increase in average utilization; Trillium saw a 20% reduction to 125 gCO2e/EFLOP.
•Efficiency gains are attributed to Mixture of Experts (MoE) sparse architectures, FP8 lower-precision math (doubling throughput vs 16-bit), and intelligent workload scheduling to maximize utilization.
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