Sam Altman claims an average ChatGPT query uses ‘roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon’ of water
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Summary
ChatGPT, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot owned by Microsoft, has been accused of using excessive water to generate its responses.
ChatGPT’s CEO, Sam Altman, has stated that a single query uses approximately 0.000085 gallons of water, equivalent to one-fifteenth of a teaspoon.
This statement was made as part of a blog post in which Altman discussed his predictions for how AI will change the world.
He also stated that the average query uses approximately 0.34 watt-hours of energy, comparable to a high-efficiency lightbulb using power for a couple of minutes.
AI companies have recently come under fire for their energy usage and its associated environmental impacts.
For example, researchers have predicted that the energy consumption of AI may soon exceed that of Bitcoin mining.