Research shows that ChatGPT consumes a huge amount of water on its servers.

ChatGPT It has quickly become one of the most used digital platforms on the entire web, so its maintenance is quite expensive for Open AIcompany for artificial intelligence. The amount of resources and capacity required for servers in chat bot Keeping working is huge, and curiously, it also requires an impressive excess of water.

According to research University of Colorado Riverside And University of Texas at Arlington which measures the energy impact that language models AI How GPT-3 And GPT-4, companies use a lot of fresh water to cool the servers that are designed to run these services. For example, Microsoft allocates up to 700,000 liters of water to its US data centers just for GPT-3 training.

Water is vital to artificial intelligence

The report’s researchers argue that these fresh water costs will triple. “If training was conducted in Asian data centers Microsoft”. To illustrate the sheer amount of this resource that a technology firm Redmond consumes to cool your servers for training artificial intelligencethe authors of the study note that with these 700,000 liters, bmw could produce up to 370 cars and Tesla up to 320.

Numbers for water ChatGPT the costs are even more impressive when you consider that each chatbot session of approximately 20-50 questions consumes a 500ml bottle of water. This is apparently quite small, but given the popularity of the AI ​​platform Open AI today millions of people talk to AI daily, and this leads to excessive water intake.

Considering that the scarcity of clean water has increased over the years, the researchers are convinced that the technology firms responsible for the development of AI “they must take on social responsibility and lead by example by eliminating their own water footprint”. However, the study did not indicate an effective solution that could Open AI or Google can replace the current process.

ChatGPT service costs a million

ChatGPT Not only does it consume large amounts of energy and water, but it also requires a basic factor for any business: money. In accordance with Tom Goldsteinresearcher and currently professor of the department Computer science at the University of Marylandkeep the chatbot active Open AI costs from $100,000 per day to $3 million per month.

That is why the service Open AI Now there is a “Plus” plan ChatGPT. For around $20 a month, users can get unlimited access to the chatbot, even during “peak hours” when a large influx of users makes it difficult to use the platform. Also ChatGPT Plus subscribers can try GPT-4a new company language model that is even more advanced than GPT-3.

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