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@AndyMasley Shaolei’s study was actually used in a news article today - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/may/26/chile-datacentres-water-tech-companies-mega-drought
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Shaolei Ren revises widely cited AI water estimate from a full bottle to 15 milliliters per prompt
Data-center-only water use drops to 5 milliliters per prompt.
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liontender@lion_tender
@AndyMasley Really these things are miracles. It usually takes me about 20 gallons (~10min of hot shower) to have ONE insight.
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Noëlla Boudart@noelladart
@AndyMasley But now prompts can require so much more: graphs, images, summaries of thousands of pages. I'd like to better understand the water consumption for those kind of prompts.
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Dave Friedman@friedmandave
@AndyMasley At a bottle of water per prompt, I would have used several Olympic sized swimming pools worth of water over the past few years.
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bashu, going to vibecamp, thanks@bashu_thanks
@AndyMasley Well written clarification as usual Andy
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Noëlla Boudart@noelladart
@AndyMasley And even more, I need to see some of the calculations/methodology behind quantifying water consumption per prompt.
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