ChatGPT uses a lot of water to train itself, study shows

ChatGPT needs to 'drink' a water bottle's worth of fresh water for every 20 to 50 questions you ask, researchers say

, and the same amount that is used to produce 370 BMW cars or 320 Tesla vehicles, per the study.

"While a 500 ml bottle of water might not seem too much, the total combined water footprint for inference is still extremely large" due to ChatGPT's large user base, the study's authors wrote. "We are also continuing to invest in purchasing renewable energy and other efforts to meet our sustainability goals of being carbon negative, water positive and zero waste by 2030," they added.AI models like GPT-3 and GPT-4 are hosted in data centers, which are physical warehouses that store large swaths of computational servers.

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