How much water does it take to ask ChatGPT a question?

[thewayne]

You may remember a few months ago I posted a link to an article about a new AI supercomputer that consumed an insane amount of electricity, enough to power something on the order of 3,000 to 30,000 houses?

As you may suspect, consuming that amount of electricity requires A LOT of cooling. OpenAI has a datacenter that pulls from the watershed of the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers in central Iowa. Iowa. You know, cornfields. Breadbasket of America. I'd love to know how much water - precisely - they are pulling.

A researcher at UC Riverside "...estimates ChatGPT gulps up 500 milliliters of water (close to what's in a 16-ounce water bottle) every time you ask it a series of between 5 to 50 prompts or questions...

Google reported a 20% growth in water use in the same period, which Ren also largely attributes to its AI work.

OpenAI and Microsoft both said they were working on improving "efficiencies" of their AI model-training."

https://apnews.com/article/chatgpt-gpt4-iowa-ai-water-consumption-microsoft-f551fde98083d17a7e8d904f8be822c4

https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/09/10/2033253/to-build-their-ai-tech-microsoft-and-google-are-using-a-lot-of-water

Comments

[thewayne]

Yep.