Send One Email With ChatGPT is the Equivalent of Consuming One Bottle of Water

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This is one side effect of AI I didn’t think about….resources it takes to use AI.

If one in 10 working Americans (about 16 million people) write a single 100-word email with ChatGPT weekly for a year, the AI will require 435,235,476 liters of water. That number is roughly equivalent to all of the water consumed in Rhode Island over a day and a half.
Sending a 100-word email with GPT-4 takes 0.14 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, which The Washington Post points out is equivalent to leaving 14 LED light bulbs on for one hour.
If one in 10 working Americans write a single 100-word email with ChatGPT weekly for a year, the AI will draw 121,517 megawatt-hours (MWh) of electricity. That’s the same amount of electricity consumed by all Washington D.C. households for 20 days.
Training GPT-3 took 700,000 liters of water.

Read the whole Tech Republic article at
Sending One Email With ChatGPT is the Equivalent of Consuming One Bottle of Water

HTH, Dana:))

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Yes indeed! AI Data Centers are tremendous energy (electricity) and tremendous water hogs.  Just what we really don’t need.

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wavy

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Even need to restart a nuclear plant.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/26/1104516/three-mile-island-microsoft/

cheers, Paul

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I’ve recently been hearing a lot about this big Piedmont Power Project which takes 500,000 volts and runs it through private property in Maryland to a Data Center in Virginia.  If you get paywalled on this Balt. Sun link, you shouldn’t have much trouble finding it on Google.

“It’s no wonder people are furious about Piedmont Reliability Project | GUEST COMMENTARY”

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/11/26/its-no-wonder-people-are-furious-about-piedmont-reliability-project-guest-commentary/

 

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satrow

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Non-paywall link: https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-residents-voice-frustration-piedmont-reliability-project-meeting-hits-boil/
(Please don’t post paywall links.)

Sounds like NIMBYism to me. “I want to use lots of electricity, but I don’t want it to use transmission lines anywhere near me”.

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In the article they explain how this power going through MD will not be for use by Marylanders or anyone else except the Data Center in Virginia.  Land in MD will be taken by eminent domain, and everyone’s Electric Bill will go up.  Sorry about the link.

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Generated in Maryland and sold to Virginia? Should make generation cheaper, assuming they have capacity.

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If I’m understanding this correctly (based on the Sunpaper’s article) the power will come from Pennsylvania (Three Mile Island perhaps) and just be run through MD.

 

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How does that make MD electricity more expensive?

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From what I read, the Maryland electric company (BGE) that serves the areas affected by this buys some of its power from the PA. electric company.  Most reports are saying electric rates will go up but I don’t think they’re positive about that.

 

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