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Disclosure rules, permitting loopholes and what regulators ask for.
EU AI Act Annex XI: energy must be documented, not disclosed
From August 2025, providers of general-purpose AI models in Europe must keep technical documentation that includes the model's energy consumption, known or estimated. They do not have to publish it. Here is what the rule requires, what it allows, and what it leaves out.
The GPAI Code of Practice: what signing it means for energy reporting
The European Commission's General-Purpose AI Code of Practice offers model providers a voluntary route to compliance with the AI Act. Its transparency chapter includes a model documentation form with an energy field. What the form asks, who has signed, and why it is not a disclosure regime.