The former Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has taken up the issue, sarcastically posting at one point: “How dare the ...

Water used at the power plants that supply electricity to data centers can be much greater than the water used in the data centers themselves.

Golf courses and data centers both require significant water. Which has the bigger footprint? Who uses more water?

Google says a typical AI query uses five drops of water. OpenAI's Sam Altman describes a similar amount — about one-fifteenth of a teaspoon. But another viral estimate says a short email written with ...

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Each time you ask an AI chatbot to summarize a lengthy legal document or conjure up a cartoon squirrel wearing glasses, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: ...

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Artificial intelligence systems are thirsty, consuming as much as 500 milliliters of water – a single-serving water bottle – for each short conversation a user has with the GPT-3 version of OpenAI’s ...