CeADAR leads €8.7m EU energy reduction project for data centres and IoT
CeADAR, Ireland’s Centre for AI, is leading an €8.7 million EU project to develop AI tools, algorithms, and frameworks to make AI systems more trustworthy and energy efficient.
The Manolo project brings together 18 partner organisations from eight European countries with the aim of developing AI resources to help reduce the amount of energy, memory, and storage required to train and run AI models, and create a framework to reverse the trend of declining user confidence in AI.
Researchers hope that the development of new techniques to create more energy efficient AI models will help alleviate the burden on national energy grids from data centres and other AI systems running on personal and embedded devices.
As part of this effort, Manolo aims to develop a handbook with practical guidelines on how to apply the Manolo framework and tools to help companies design trustworthy AI solutions. It is expected that the trustworthy algorithms and framework devised under MANOLO will help companies conform to the EU’s proposed legislation to regulate AI, the EU AI Act.
Over 36 months, researchers plan to develop and test their AI tools in laboratories before rolling them out for validation in a variety of industry settings. Some AI tools, for example, will be embedded in humanoid robots operating in manufacturing and healthcare environments, in low-power sensor devices for brain-computer interface, such as those that monitor sleep, and in mobile phones.
The resources will also be tested in neuromorphic chips, computer processors modelled on the neural systems of the human brain which can perform tasks faster than standard computer processers while using less power.
Manolo is funded by Horizon Europe, the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation with a budget of €95.5 billionn. It tackles climate change, helps to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, and boosts the EU’s competitiveness and growth.
Dr. Ricardo Simon Carbajo, director of innovation & development at CeADAR and Manolo project coordinator, said: “CeADAR is very proud to serve as the leader of Manolo, a major EU-funded project involving many of the top research and industry institutions in Europe.
“The aim of Manolo is to create novel algorithms to make AI more trustworthy and energy efficient. The solution will plug into current AI systems, which will help organisations in Ireland and Europe achieve their energy efficiency targets. It will also provide tools and frameworks to evaluate and improve the trustworthiness of their AI systems while empowering humans and contributing to the good use of AI.”
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