Although it may seem like a joke, ChatGPT and AI in general, They need water to survive, as if they were an organic being.
Not only that, having ChatGPT and AI functional involves a huge waste of water; even writing an email with artificial intelligence needs liquid.
According to a study by the University of Californiain Riverside, and The Washington Post, writing an email with artificial intelligence uses half a liter of water.
If a person constantly uses the program to send emails, they would end up using about 27 liters of water per year.
ChatGPT (Open IA)
Why does ChatGPT and AI waste so much water?
It’s not that ChatGPT and AI use in water directly or need the liquid for its operation or traditional activities.
The water consumption of ChatGPT and AI occurs tangentially; to be more exact, in the servers where the program is stored.
These servers consume a lot of energy, which produces very high temperatures that need to be regulated so that the machines do not break down.
For what they are used cooling systems water-based, that’s where the waste is generated.
The research mentions that Microsoft needed 700 thousand liters of water while optimizing ChatGPT-3.
While Google used 1.7 million gallons (6.4 million liters) to cool their systems in 2021.
A lot of water could be saved if programs were deactivated at certain times of the day, as if a person were resting after a day’s work.
The problem is that this cannot happen, the software has to be always available to the user, which means that the servers are in maximum operation 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
ChatGPT (Flickr)
Companies seek new methods to avoid wasting water using ChatGPT and AI
Companies like Microsoft and Google are aware of the water expenditure they represent ChatGPT and AIwhich is why they are looking for alternatives to this.
Google mentions that it is experimenting with a cooling system which combines water with other types of refrigerants.
Microsoft, for its part, has not stated what its strategy is to avoid wasting water with ChatGPT and AI.
However, the first steps in this direction are just being taken, so its application would be in the distant future, which means that dependence on agua it won’t end soon.
ChatGPT (Flickr)
With information from The Washington Post.
2024-09-21 02:19:27