Study finds that training ChatGPT requires enough water to fill a nuclear reactor’s cooling tower

  • Popular large language models (LLMs) require massive server farms to train powerful programs.
  • Cooling these data centers requires a large amount of water.
  • New research suggests that training ChatGPT alone consumed enough water to fill a nuclear reactor’s cooling tower.

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