{"id":1012422,"date":"2026-06-05T08:57:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012422"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:21:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:51:19","slug":"ai-could-consume-as-much-water-as-1-3-billion-people-by-2030-warns-un-report-hidden-cost-of-every-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/05\/ai-could-consume-as-much-water-as-1-3-billion-people-by-2030-warns-un-report-hidden-cost-of-every-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"AI could consume as much water as 1.3 billion people by 2030, warns UN report \u2013 Hidden cost of every prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s rapidly growing appetite for artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s rapidly growing appetite for artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012448,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012422\/revisions\/1012448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}