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

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/critics-furious-microsoft-is-training-ai-by-sucking-up-water-during-drought/
- Published: 2023-09-30T09:15:10-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

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. […] Click here to view original web page at futurism.com