Estimating ChatGPT’s Daily Water Footprint
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There is no single measured answer. Depending on the assumptions, ChatGPT’s global service may use roughly 2 million to 160 million litres of water per day . One commonly cited middle estimate is about 17 million litres per day at approximately 2.5 billion prompts per day . I would treat those figu…
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Estimating ChatGPT’s Daily Water Footprint