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Google Is Really, Really Thirsty (gizmodo.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Gnubyte@lemdit.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Highlighting that in the article researchers found that the average chat with ChatGPT is the equivalent of dumping one bottle of water on the floor.

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[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To add to what the other person said, I went looking and couldn’t find any solid answers. Part of it might be that Google considers their water use details as proprietary information they’re not keen on sharing, and there’s so many sites in so many different jurisdictions that I’d be surprised if there was an overarching solution.

I thought this article went into it decently: https://time.com/5814276/google-data-centers-water/

[–] Fuzzypyro@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We have this amazing process for saving water. Shame on other company for not using a similar method. By the way we aren’t sharing how we do it and if you happen to do a similar method and release those details we will likely cry corporate espionage.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

They're saving water the same way VW lowered their emissions (lying about it).