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A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental costs of using AI chatbots

Roughly a quarter of Americans have used ChatGPT since the chatbot’s 2022 release, according to the Pew Research Center — and every query exacts a cost.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/18/energy-ai-use-electricity-water-data-centers/