Artificial intelligence systems are thirsty, consuming as much as 500 milliliters of water â a single serving water bottle â for each short conversation a user has with the GPT 3 version of OpenAIâs ChatGPT system. They use roughly the same amount of water to draft a 100 word email message. That figure includes the water used to cool the data centerâs servers and the water consumed at the power plants generating the electricity to run them. But the study that calculated those estimates...
