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Just read a report that says AI training runs can use more water than a small town

I found a study from the University of California that broke down the water used to cool data centers for big AI models. They said training something like GPT-3 could use about 700,000 liters of water, which is enough for hundreds of homes for a year. I was just looking at energy use before, but the water cost never crossed my mind. It's a huge hidden resource drain that nobody talks about when they show off a new chatbot. How are companies even tracking this, and is anyone working to fix it?

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dakota_murphy9010d ago

700,000 liters for one training run... that's a swimming pool of water just for a chatbot.

oliver_fisher10d ago

Wow, I read they use that water mostly for cooling the computers.