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The Hidden Cost of Thinking: Energy Use and Environmental Impact of LMs Beyond Pretraining

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Main Authors:	Morrison, Jacob, Smith, Noah A., Strubell, Emma
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Computers and Society
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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