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One bottle of water per 100-word AI prompt seems to be extremely high. I don’t know what the source is. Claude says it is https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/18/energy-ai-use-electricity-water-data-centers/, but it is paywalled. I am curious to see the precise claim.
Fixed. I can’t find the unpaywalled Washington Post article, but here’s a post which disputes the claim directly: The Biggest Statistic About AI Water Use Is A Lie
https://archive.ph/Xrh01
The first source link is empty.
One bottle of water per 100-word AI prompt seems to be extremely high. I don’t know what the source is. Claude says it is https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/18/energy-ai-use-electricity-water-data-centers/, but it is paywalled. I am curious to see the precise claim.
Fixed. I can’t find the unpaywalled Washington Post article, but here’s a post which disputes the claim directly: The Biggest Statistic About AI Water Use Is A Lie
https://archive.ph/Xrh01