A.I. tools fueled a 34% spike in Microsoft ’s water consumption, and one city with its data centers is concerned about the effect on residential supply

The cost of building an artificial intelligence product like ChatGPT can be hard to measure. But one thing Microsoft-backed OpenAI needed for its technology was plenty of water, pulled from the watershed of the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers in central Iowa to cool a powerful supercomputer as it…#openai #raccoon #desmoines #iowa #google #shaoleiren #rens #ren #oregon #lasvegas

Source: Reuters: Health - September 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news