Clive ThompsonJul 30, 2023

Every time someone talks to ChatGPT for 20 exchanges or so ...

... Microsoft's servers use a half-liter of freshwater to cool down

AI is *thirsty*

My essay on some implications of this: https://clivethompson.medium.com/ai-is-thirsty-37f99f24a26e

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Show threadSamuel Leuenberger
@clive I intuitively found this figure overblown, so I dug in your source and I see that the authors are basing all their calculations (3.8L/kWh) on a figure in a WSJ article!
Is that serious ? I wouldn't trust a paper whose authors do not even bother providing a citation to a proper study, especially when their core statement is based on this source.
I do hope that the WSJ article has a citation itself and would appreciate if someone with an access could provide it.
Jul 31, 2023 at 1:54pmWeb
Show threadDźwiedziuJul 31, 2023

@Leuenberg
AFAIU they can't get better figures, because there is no publicly available data.

Still the numbers can differ, but the problem remains.

@clive