Critics Furious Microsoft Is Training AI by Sucking Up Water During Drought

Image by Getty Images. Article by Sharon Adarlo. Futurism – September 26, 2023.

“ChatGPT is not a necessity for human life, and yet we are literally taking water to feed a computer.”

Microsoft’s data centers in West Des Moines, Iowa guzzled massive amounts of water last year, the Associated Press reported earlier this month, to keep cool while training OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4, the Microsoft-backed company’s most advanced publicly available large language model. […]

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