The majority of energy consumed is for training the AI models, not providing output from those models.
This means the resource consumption is not tied to usage and prompts. Also it means resource consumption to train models is temporary, relative to the model.
That is how water use works, yes. The water goes back into the environment and is later reused.
Also, there’s a good chance the AIs are not being trained in the same facilities that they’re later being run in. Different sorts of work is being done.
The majority of energy consumed is for training the AI models, not providing output from those models.
This means the resource consumption is not tied to usage and prompts. Also it means resource consumption to train models is temporary, relative to the model.
Oh ok. So they’ll put the water back once the models are trained?
No they will just train more models. Do you ever pay attention?
The line must always go up. NO DOWN.
That is how water use works, yes. The water goes back into the environment and is later reused.
Also, there’s a good chance the AIs are not being trained in the same facilities that they’re later being run in. Different sorts of work is being done.
Not necessarily. Some ground water is ancient “fossil water” and won’t replenish. At least not before a very long time.
Back into the environment, yes.
Back into Arlen, Texas water supplies?.. M a y b e?
You don’t start limiting residential showers unless running the well dry is a possibility.
That’s irrelevant to what I was responding to - the question being asked had an incorrect context and I was correcting it.