How the AI industry uses water and how that impacts an increasingly parched world is more complicated than people think.

There is an old business adage, “If you are not measuring it, you are not managing it.” Here are ways our use is monitored. Municipal waterSuppose you get your water through a common distribution ...

Artificial intelligence systems are thirsty, consuming as much as 500 milliliters of water – a single-serving water bottle – for each short conversation a user has with the GPT-3 version of OpenAI’s ...