Generative AI's environmental costs are soaring – and mostly secret
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## A lawsuit by local residents revealed that in July 2022, the month before #OpenAI finished training the model, the cluster used about 6% of the district’s water. As #Google and #Microsoft prepared their #Bard and #Bing large language models, both had major spikes in #water use — increases of 20% and 34%, respectively, in one year, according to the companies’