Here’s How Much Water AI Consumes for Every Conversation
ChatGPT Is Exhausting Earth’s Water Supply. Here’s How Much Water AI Consumes for Every Conversation
Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT aroused a variety of suspicions in its users, and now we have another reason not to trust it. The world was too reliant on this technology for everyday matters, and this dependence was on the rise, with no end in sight. The impact it had on the environment could be a very good reason to stop this cohabitation, according to LadBible. Every time we started a conversation with the algorithm, its thirst for the Earth’s water supplies went up. Every quick chat wasted around 50 cl of water with each 10 to 50 queries. ChatGPT not only exhausted our water supply but also consumed more than half a million kilowatts of electricity each day.
This amount of electricity was so massive that it supplied an estimated two hundred million requests. This was enough to power 180,000 US households while people were busy trying to get the algorithm to write their essays and shopping lists. Even a small ‘please’ or ‘thank you’ as a response amounted to tens of millions of dollars and caused serious invisible damage. We should consider that the data centers that housed the algorithm worked like a heated computer, which also needed water to cool down. Without heat regulation, these AI servers could melt a human, according to David Craig, chief executive of Iceotope, which helped cool data centres.
