@@ -251,12 +251,11 @@ <h3>Dashboard visualizations</h3>
251251 The dashboard presents the frontier comparison in two ways:
252252</ p >
253253< ul style ="color:#cbd5e1; padding-left:1.5rem; margin:0.5rem 0 1rem; ">
254- < li > < strong > CO₂/token bar chart:</ strong > Green bars show the 24-hour average CO₂ per token
254+ < li > < strong > CO₂/token bar chart:</ strong > Bars show the 24-hour average CO₂ per token
255255 (mg) for each active NRP model. Green diamond (◆) markers show the current 5-minute rate.
256- Red cross (✕) markers show what a commercial frontier model would emit < em > on the same
257- grid</ em > — since grid intensity is identical on both sides, this is purely a model
258- size/energy comparison. The gap between the green bar and the red cross is the energy
259- savings.</ li >
256+ Bar color ranges from < span style ="color:#22c55e "> green</ span > (low carbon per token) to
257+ < span style ="color:#ef4444 "> red</ span > (high) — reflecting both energy efficiency and
258+ grid carbon intensity at the model's location.</ li >
260259 < li > < strong > Model card "N× less energy" metric:</ strong > Each model card shows how many
261260 times more power the commercial frontier would require to serve the same tokens
262261 (e.g. "7.0× less energy"). This is < code > frontier_watts / nrp_measured_watts</ code > .</ li >
@@ -281,7 +280,10 @@ <h3>Energy efficiency across models (J/token view)</h3>
281280< ul style ="color:#cbd5e1; padding-left:1.5rem; margin:0.5rem 0 1rem; ">
282281 < li > < strong > Low traffic:</ strong > GPU idle power dominates when few tokens are being processed</ li >
283282 < li > < strong > Oversized allocation:</ strong > More GPUs than needed for the model's actual demand</ li >
284- < li > < strong > Model architecture:</ strong > Some models require more compute per token than others</ li >
283+ < li > < strong > Model architecture:</ strong > Dense models activate all parameters on every token,
284+ while Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models route each token through a subset (~20%) of total
285+ weights. A dense 31B model may therefore have higher J/token than a 397B MoE, because the
286+ MoE only activates ~60B parameters per token</ li >
285287</ ul >
286288< div class ="callout ">
287289 < p > < strong > Note:</ strong > J/token only appears for models with >5 tok/s total throughput.
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