AI Basics
ChatGPT, Gemini, and other tools that answer your questions are forms of this technology.
What is Artificial Intelligence?
Just like a car, AI computers generate massive amounts of this when working hard.
What is heat?
When measuring digital data, the letters "GB" stand for this.
What is a gigabyte?
This group of people is hit the hardest when big tech companies use up the freshwater.
Who are the local/poor communities?
The system used right now where tech companies monitor their own water use is known as this.
What is self-regulation?
The acronym "LLM" stands for this type of model.
What is a Large Language Model?
This standard method of cooling, like using fans, is no longer strong enough to keep AI computers from overheating.
What is air cooling?
Research estimates that generating just 1 GB of data can consume up to 205 of these liquid measurements.
What are liters?
The physical mark that a technology leaves on the Earth is called its what?
What is an environmental footprint?
To force companies to use less water, the government could place one of these legal limits on usage per month.
What is a water cap?
Physical computer parts are known as this.
Because fans aren't enough anymore, this resource must be used to cool the machines.
What is water?
Using all of this water requires large amounts of this power source, which has doubled the environmental impact of data centers.
What is electricity?
Data centers can cause this natural disaster if they use up too much water in certain dry areas.
What is a drought?
A strict rule or law made by the government to control what a company can do.
What is a regulation?
When we save data online, they are actually in these machines.
What are servers?
Microsoft claims it wants to fix its cooling problem and become "water positive" by this year.
What is 2030?
By 2030, European data centers are projected to use over 820 million cubic meters of water, draining these.
What are local water supplies?
Tech giants often make "empty" environmental promises to keep this group happy.
Who are the investors/shareholders?
With a limit in place, big tech companies could focus their AI models on this rather than using up the most resources.
What is efficiency?
This massive building full of computers is where AI actually lives.
What is a data center?
Currently, less than this percentage of data centers actually track and report the water they use.
What is 30%?
To visualize 205 liters, it is roughly the equivalent of filling up a standard one of these household things.
What is a bathtub?
Although AI seems purely digital, it is actually this.
What is material/physical?
Tech companies argue that putting water caps on data centers will slow down the rapid growth of this concept.
What is innovation?