Every AI prompt has a hidden cost. Here is what it actually uses
- A single ChatGPT prompt uses 10 times more electricity than a Google search — and 0.32 ml of water to cool the servers.
- At billions of queries daily, global data centre power demand will match Japan's entire annual electricity use by 2030.
- AI uses water twice — once to cool servers and again at the power plants generating the electricity to run them.
- Most power grids still run on coal — as AI data centres multiply globally, their carbon emissions could accelerate climate change and strain electricity grids worldwide.
Source: thewire.in
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