Why does ChatGPT ‘drink’ massive amounts of water?

A number of people around the world use ChatGPT to gain knowledge on various issues. Platforms like these which work on the principle of Artificial Intelligence (AI) use a lot of data to churn out answers in seconds.

But at the same time, they also use a lot of water!

As per a report on IndiaTimes, researchers from the University of Colorado Riverside and the University of Texas Arlington have noted that a lot of water goes into keeping the data centres for such AI tools cool.

The publication further quoted a paper titled Making AI Less Thirsty which is yet to be peer reviewed, to note that just to train GPT-3 alone, it required 700,301 litres of water.