ChatGPT needs to 'drink' a water bottle's worth of fresh water for every 20 to 50 questions you ask, researchers say

• AI's environmental impact is largely unknown, but a new paper points gives some insight into it.
• Training GPT-3 requires water to stave off the heat produced during the computational process.
• Every 20 to 50 questions, ChatGPT servers need to "drink" the equivalent of a 16.9 oz water bottle.

As the general public rushes to generative AI tools like ChatGPT, the environmental impact of the new technology is beginning to come to light.