ChatGPT uses four times more water than previously thought.

You may be hungry for knowledge, but your chatbot is thirsty for the world’s water supplies. The huge computer clusters powering ChatGPT need four times as much water to deliver answers than previously thought, it has been claimed.

Using the chatbot for between ten to 50 queries consumes about two litres of water, according to experts from the University of California, Riverside.

[thetimes.com]

Sam Radford @samradford