Had a conversation this morning with a faculty member who did not know about the environmental impacts of generative AI, and the WaPo handily has visual aids today wapo.st/4d9TJKz

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

AI needs a lot of electricity and water to stay cool in data centers. We break down the toll prompt-by-prompt to show the scale of AI’s environmental needs.