A recent environmental report found Microsoft’s global water consumption spiked in a year to nearly 1.7 billion gallons
In order to cool the supercomputer that helped teach its AI systems, Microsoft-backed OpenAI used water from the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers in Iowa where ChatGPT was built. The company is not alone in its race for generative AI, with OpenAI andalso acknowledging that the demand for AI increases water consumption and requires expensive semiconductors.
The computing necessary to build a large language model that analyzes patterns of human-written text takes massive amounts of energy and creates a lot of heat. To cool things down, data centers have to pump in water. In Microsoft’s case, it disclosed that when Iowa’s temperature exceeds 85 degrees Fahrenheit, that is when the supercomputer will draw water so it can run properly and vent heat out. Much of the year, the weather is below that temperature so no water is drawn.
Shaolei Ren, a researcher at the University of California, Riverside is working to tabulate the environmental impact of generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT., “Most people are not aware of the resource usage underlying ChatGPT. If you’re not aware of the resource usage, then there’s no way that we can help conserve the resources.”
In a paper that is expected to be published later this year, Ren and his team estimate that Chat GPT chugs around 500 milliliters of water every time it’s asked a series of between 5 to 50 prompts or questions.
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