A focus on hardware efficiency and creating smaller AI learning models reduced SAP’s average emissions per AI token by 60 percent between 2024 and the first quarter of 2025. The principles call for SAP employees to consider the company’s broader sustainability comments related to electricity use, water consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions before committing to adding AI into a product or service. SAP’s focus on hardware efficiency and its policy of creating smaller learning models helped the company reduce average emissions per AI token — the small bits of code that make up queries — by 60 percent between 2024 and the first quarter of 2025, the company said.