I am very happy about the kind of progress we're making when it comes to Artificial Intelligence, AI. It's really an awesome time to be alive and next year, I bet we'll see a lot of new tools from the AI industry.
Companies like Open AI and Google Gemini and even Apple have promised us big breakthroughs in AI technology. The question the still bothers me is at what cost. One thing we forget is that the AI models are trained with powerful computers that need cooler.
What are they using to cool the machines? Water that's what.
So although services like ChatGPT is becoming a bigger part of our lives it comes with a hidden cost of water usage.
Recent studies tells us that the servers powering AI use a lot more water than we first thought they did.
In fact, it’s now estimated that Chatgpt answering just 10 to about 50 queries requires about two liters of water. Imagine how many queries you alone give to chatgpt per year and how many people are using the service. That's a lot of water for cooling and how is this going to affect our water supply in the near future.
Chatgpt is not the alone service, like I mentioned we've got Gemini, Calude which is my favorite and many others.
As AI continues to grow, its environmental impact is something we may not be able to ignore anymore.
Water is a vital resource, and in many parts of the world, it's already scarce. It's a funny thing that we are no longer they only ones drinking the water, chatgpt is one thirsty SOB although it's very useful anyways.
The Technology companies and AI industries need to find ways to reduce the amount of water their systems use. I may not be an expert but perhaps they could include better cooling systems or using renewable energy sources that won't suck as much water as the current AI machines do right now.
Everyone is thinking about data privacy issues and electricity cost and are not even looking at it from this angle. If the water finishes I'm going to live under the sea, haha just kidding.