Water Usage in AI and Agriculture
Just it's done. I don't have the exact calculation in
front of me,
but I, I think the real number is something like, doing this from memory,
it might
be wrong, but it's close. For every 38,000
ChatGPT queries, um, that is the same amount of
water that is used in the production of a single almond in California.
Which is like really-- and this is like the full on, you know, total true
water accounting, not just what's running in one data
center.
There's a question of like where this came from because the people that
are scarfing down 12 almonds at a time don't feel like they're doing
something horrible from a water perspective for the most part.
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