“AI is famously energy-intensive and requires a ton of water in order to cool the data centers and server farms that act as the program’s brain. Researchers at the University of California Riverside (including Ren) & the University of Texas Arlington recently found that training ChatGPT-3 alone required roughly 185,000 gallons of water—that’s enough water to fill a nuclear reactor’s cooling tower.” #ClimateCrisis
https://gizmodo.com/google-water-usage-exploding-with-ai-development-1850673427