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How much water and energy does it take to write an email using ChatGPT?
About as much water as a single-use bottle holds, the The Washington Post reports. The electricity it takes is about as much as 14 LED light bulbs might burn through in an hour.
These are rough estimates, but they come with helpful illustrations to show the environmental costs of operating data centers for new AI tools.
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