Before you start any research, we need to answer a harder question: Why should we research this at all?

People talk about AI’s energy impact at the data-center level. Students cannot measure that directly. What students can measure, however, is the cost of a single AI response on their own machine and the factors that change that cost. This course will guide you through a research that connects:

output length (tokens) → time (runtime) → estimated energy

Then later, you test the tradeoff:

efficiency vs accuracy