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> Models require massive amounts of electricity and water (to cool servers).

Does it?

https://prospect.org/environment/2024-09-27-water-not-the-pr...

> training GPT-3 used as much water as just under twice what is required for the average American’s beef consumption. In other words, just two people swearing off beef would more than compensate.

https://andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sheet-for-conversa...

> It would be a sad meaningless distraction for people who care about the climate to freak out about how often they use Google search. Imagine what your reaction would be to someone telling you they did ten Google searches. You should have the same reaction to someone telling you they prompted ChatGPT.

parent roywiggins 1 year ago

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