To Build Their AI Tech, Microsoft and Google are Using a Lot of Water

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By EditorDavidSep 10, 2023, 4:59 pm573 ptsHotTop
An anonymous Slashdot reader shares this report from the Associated Press: The cost of building an artificial intelligence product like ChatGPT can be hard to measure. But one thing Microsoft-backed OpenAI needed for its technology was plenty of water, pulled from the watershed of the Raccoon and Des Moines…

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