Micah Lee on Nostr: "training GPT‑3 in Microsoft’s state-of-the-art U.S. data centers can directly ...

"training GPT‑3 in Microsoft’s state-of-the-art U.S. data centers can directly consume 700,000 liters of clean freshwater (enough to produce 370 BMW cars or 320 Tesla electric vehicles), and the water consumption would have been tripled if training were done in Microsoft’s data centers in Asia" https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/04/15/the-secret-water-footprint-of-ai-technology