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UC-Riverside: AI Programs Consume Large Volumes of Scarce Water
April 29, 2023
RIVERSIDE, California, April 29 (TNSjou) -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news:

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UCR study finds that keeping servers powered & cool at cloud data processing centers has high water costs

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Every time you run a ChatGPT artificial intelligence query, you use up a little bit of an increasingly scarce resource: fresh water. Run some 20 to 50 queries and roughly a half liter, around 17 ounces, of fre . . .

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