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AI’S Unsustainable Water Use: How Tech Giants Contribute To Global Water Shortages (www.forbes.com)

submitted 3 years ago by haddockseyes@kbin.social to c/tech@kbin.social

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ChatGPT 'drinks' the equivalent of a 500ml bottle of water for a simple conversation of 20-50 questions and answers. Which may not seem like much... until you consider that it has more than 100 million active users.

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[–] exohuman@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

Why can’t they use sea water? Fresh water is for drinking.

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[–] haddockseyes@kbin.social [S] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

Just because they're inland, I think.

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[–] Adlantor@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago

I think a good solution for something like this would be a closed loop system that pumps heat underground. Like passive cooling but on a grander scale and probably much deeper underground. So maybe more like reverse geothermal?

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