Every ChatGPT query you make uses water, and Sam Altman has revealed the exact figure
This was revealed in a blog post by Sam Altman himself, titled 'The Gentle Singularity'. He revealed this while talking about data centre production, automation, and the cost of intelligence eventually converging to near the cost of electricity.
Sam Altman stated that people are often curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses. In terms of electricity, it is about 0.34 watt-hours. This is something an oven would use in over one second, or a high-efficiency light bulb would use in a little over a couple of minutes. As for the water, Altman says that a query uses about 0.000085 gallons of water (0.00032 litres), which in real-world equivalent is about one-fifteenth of a teaspoon.
So, for example, using ChatGPT 1,000 times would result in approximately 0.32 litres of water being consumed.
Well, time and again, it has been propagated that running these AI models requires large data centres and large compute power. And for all of that work, you do need more electricity, more power generation, and of course, water. This is where the larger carbon footprint comes into play.
Having said that, while Altman does mention some figures in his official blog post, it is not really clear how he came to these conclusions or if there has been research about this at OpenAI.
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