Nvidia puts the manufacture of a motherboard of 8 GPUs at 1,312 kgCO2e (about 160 kgCO2e per GPU, with the board and cooling included) and that of the next generation at 2,274 kgCO2e. For comparison, ADEME counts about 193 kgCO2e for a laptop. Over the life cycle of a model, server hardware accounts for a minority of greenhouse gases (11% at Mistral AI) but dominates for mineral resources (61%).
Read the source article: AI life cycle assessment: Mistral AI's results by stage