The use of artificial intelligences, such as the ChatGPTwas well known for the rapid production of answers, research, files and photos. However, a simple image created as a joke can have a high cost to the environment – higher than you think.
OpenAi, a company that controls the, revealed that a simple AI ConsultationHow to know the day’s time forecast, it consumes the equivalent to maintain a high -efficiency lamp for a few minutes. For comparison purposes, the same online search spends 10 to 100 times less energy.
When it comes to creating images, this value increases to up to 3 Watt-hours (WH) of electricity with just one command. Considering that the surroundings do at least one appointment per day, consumption increases to over 950,000 kWh, or the equivalent of the use of an appliance for almost 3,000 years without interruption. Already making videos of 6 seconds with AI can consume up to 110 WH.
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All this energy accumulates heat in the machines that generate the answers, images and videos and they need to be cooled at some point, further pressing the environment.
Researchers at the University of California analyzed that a 20 to 50 questions with chatgpt consumes half a liter of drinking water. With the 400 million weekly users of the platform, this means 200 million liters of water per week just to cool machines.
The does not only happen with the Open AI system, but with several other artificial intelligences, such as OE. According to Google, the company used 6.4 billion gallons of water, or 24 billion liters, to maintain its structure by 2023. In turn, Microsoft reported consumption of 12.951 billion liters of water in the same year.
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The problem is increasing in the world and highlights the urgency of companies being transparent in relation to Impacts of AI use on the environment.
