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

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