Sam Altman Claims ChatGPT Uses Far Less Water than Critics Say

Sam Altman claims ChatGPT uses far less water than critics say

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has dropped a comparison that’s hard to swallow. Firing off 38,000 messages to ChatGPT, he said, consumes roughly the amount of water it would take to grow one almond. He floated the claim on the launch episode of the new weekly series Sources with Alex Heath podcast, where Heath, a […] Read the original article here: Sam Altman claims ChatGPT uses far less water than critics say

Fact check: Is Sam Altman right that almonds use more water than ChatGPT queries? (Cal Matters)

Cal Matters: Fact check: Is Sam Altman right that almonds use more water than ChatGPT queries?. “On the Sources Podcast with Alex Heath released Tuesday, Altman said that it takes 38,000 ChatGPT queries to use as much water as producing a single almond in California. ‘If you look at a modern very large data center, it uses the equivalent amount of water as an office building in terms of, you know, people like running the sinks and the toilets an…

Fact check: Is Sam Altman right that almonds use more water than ChatGPT queries?

As Gov. Gavin Newsom weighs whether to require data centers to disclose how much water they use, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says concerns over AI’s water use don’t hold “up to any scrutiny.”  On the Sources Podcast with Alex Heath released Tuesday, Altman said that it takes 38,000 ChatGPT queries to use as much water as producing […]