Hidden costs of technology development

Hidden costs of tech development

OpenAI’s ChatGPT consumes 500 ml of water for every 5 to 50 prompts it answers, wrote Shaolei Ren, a researcher at the University of California, Riverside. In the paper, Ren revealed that Microsoft’s global water usage surged to 34 per cent from 2021 to 2022 (to nearly 1.7 billion gallons). https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/microsofts-water-usage-surges-by-thousands-of-gallons-after-the-launch-of-chatgpt-study-397951-2023-09-11