AI could consume as much water as 1.3 billion people by 2030, warns UN report – Hidden cost of every prompt
Whenever you type a question into ChatGPT or any other AI chatbox or ask an AI to write your email, watch a video conjured by a generative model, a small but measurable quantity of water evaporates somewhere on earth.
A new report from the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) has put hard figures on what was until now only vaguely understood, the full environmental toll of the world’s rapidly growing appetite for artificial intelligence.
