ChatGPT requires half a liter of water to have a conversation

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How is water consumed by training? Or are they talking about manufacturing? I get the feeling this is trying to amortize the water used in manufacturing to individual conversations, which makes no sense to me.

it's used for data center cooling

Thanks. Good explanation of water usage by data centers here:

https://dgtlinfra.com/data-center-water-usage/

"Uncovering and Addressing the Secret Water Footprint of AI Models" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03271

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