The Cooling Crisis: Why AI's Water and Energy Appetite Is Unsustainable—and What Might Replace It
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A single ChatGPT conversation, roughly 20 to 50 queries, consumes about half a liter of water. That's the number that stopped me. Not the electricity, not the carbon, not the GPU shortage. The water. Because water is the one input that doesn't have a substitute, and the AI industry is drinking from…
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The Cooling Crisis: Why AI's Water and Energy Appetite Is Unsustainable—and What Might Replace It