I had the chance to talk to a staffer of one of the MEPs leading the political negotiations in EU parlament committee a few weeks ago. His take was that the pro-tech/pro-business parties conceded the 'AI users must track their energy use'-point to the Greens in the latest draft (which is the parliament's counterproposal to earlier drafts by the commission --think EU executive-- and council --think governments of the member states--) because it's so unrealistic in practice that it's likely to be stricken out of the law again during the final negotiation round between parliament and council negotiators.

I really hope that'll be the case. FWIW, I believe companies _should_ be required to keep tabs on their (and their supply chain's) emissions, but demanding that this be done at model/system level by data scientists is just ridiculous.

edit: grammar