Happy to share the SCI for AI specification from our Green Software…

Happy to share the SCI for AI specification from our Green Software Foundation

As AI systems moved beyond traditional software patterns with model training, inference, and increasingly agentic behaviours, it became clear that existing software carbon metrics needed careful extension to remain meaningful. Measuring AI emissions is not just about more compute; it is about different lifecycles, boundaries, and usage patterns.

Within the Green Software Foundation’s standards work, SCI for AI emerged as a focused workstream to address these gaps by extending the ISO Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) framework for AI specific scenarios. This work has been shaped through focused workshops with 20+ member organisations early this year, followed by sustained weekly working sessions that helped turn ideas into a concrete, implementation ready specification.

The outcome reflects the strength of an open and inclusive community, where collective intelligence and diverse perspectives turn complex problems into practical, implementable standards. Sincere thanks to all the members who participated and shaped this specification, and to the member organisations whose contributions made this work possible.

As a next step, the community is inviting case studies for SCI for AI implementation. If you have existing AI systems or use cases and want to measure the carbon impact of your AI workloads and identify reduction opportunities, do reach out. Real world implementations will help validate and strengthen the specification.

Check out the details and the full specification at
👉 https://lnkd.in/gkvZeMm5

Grateful to be leading this effort alongside such a committed community.