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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.green/users/gerrymcgovern/statuses/114398705944542728">Gerry McGovern (gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 21:56:52 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern" title="gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/90000-48-20230120164526.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Gerry McGovern" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Gerry McGovern</a></section><article><p>"A Government Accountability Office report released this week reveals generative AI systems consume staggering amounts of water, with 250 million daily queries requiring over 1.1 million gallons -- all while companies provide minimal transparency about resource usage. The 47-page analysis found cooling data centers -- which demand between 100-1000 megawatts of power -- constitutes 40% of their energy consumption, a figure expected to rise as global temperatures increase."<br><a href="https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/24/1556239/even-the-us-government-says-ai-requires-massive-amounts-of-water" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/24/1556239/even-the-us-government-says-ai-requires-massive-amounts-of-water</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4951850#notice-9702183">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-04-25T21:56:52+09:00" title="Friday, 25-Apr-2025 21:56:52 JST">about 5 days ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/114398705944542728" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.green via ActivityPub">mastodon.green</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/114398705944542728">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: a.fsdn.com</div><h5><a href="https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/24/1556239/even-the-us-government-says-ai-requires-massive-amounts-of-water">Even the US Government Says AI Requires Massive Amounts of Water - Slashdot</a></h5><div></div></header><div>A Government Accountability Office report released this week reveals generative AI systems consume staggering amounts of water, with 250 million daily queries requiring over 1.1 million gallons -- all while companies provide minimal transparency about resource usage. The 47-page analysis [PDF] found...</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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"A Government Accountability Office report released this week reveals generative AI systems consume staggering amounts of water, with 250 million daily queries requiring over 1.1 million gallons -- all while companies provide minimal transparency about resource usage. The 47-page analysis found cooling data centers -- which demand between 100-1000 megawatts of power -- constitutes 40% of their energy consumption, a figure expected to rise as global temperatures increase."
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