"training GPT‑3 in Microsoft’s state-of-the-art U.S. data centers can directly consume 700,000 liters of clean freshwater (enough to produce 370 BMW cars or 320 Tesla electric vehicles), and the water consumption would have been tripled if training were done in Microsoft’s data centers in Asia" https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/04/15/the-secret-water-footprint-of-ai-technology
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@micahflee Oh boy, you did not include the relevant context...
(A) It starts like this: "I did some research on AI’s water footprint using state-of-the-art **estimation** methodology" (emphasis added)
and (B) it doesn't give a timeframe for that usage. Is 700,000 liters of water a day or over the entire life of the technology?
