Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/10267315
Initial research shows that AI has a significant water footprint. It uses water both for cooling the servers that power its computations and for producing the energy it consumes. As AI becomes more integrated into our societies, its water footprint will inevitably grow.
The growth of ChatGPT and similar AI models has been hailed as “the new Google.” But while a single Google search requires half a millilitre of water in energy, ChatGPT consumes 500 millilitres of water for every five to 50 prompts.
The article seems to conflate AI, Farm specific AI, and technological advancements. They call out a lot of ways that tech advancements and targeted applications of AI can help save water / find new solutions. It’s lightweight on the fidnigns, but whatever. They then go to talk about data centers using a lot of water. It’s related, but not really the same thing.