“DRAFT an e-mail to Xyz organisation for collaboration.” In this day and age, we ask AI-powered chatbots to do everything from mundane tasks to vibe coding (coding using artificial intelligence tools). But did you know that every time we ask an AI a question, it uses about 50ml of water to cool the supercomputers it resides in, and 10 times the energy of a standard Google search?
In 2023, approximately 863 billion litres of water were used by AI data centres – that’s about 305,000 Olympic swimming pools worth of water – and that value is expected to double in 2028.
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