Your Cup of Coffee Uses 29,600x More Water Than a ChatGPT Prompt (w. Alex Passini) [2/2]
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Your Cup of Coffee Uses 29,600x More Water Than a ChatGPT Prompt (w. Alex Passini) [2/2]

B1IntermediateMay 1, 202653 min

Everyone says AI is drinking the planet dry, right? Well, the numbers say your morning coffee uses 29,600× more water than a ChatGPT prompt! In this episode, I sit down with Alex Passini to pressure-test the dominant narrative around AI's water footprint - and what we found completely flips the story the media is telling. Here's what most "AI water crisis" headlines miss: → A single ChatGPT prompt uses roughly 16 milliliters of water. One cup of coffee uses ~140 liters when you count the beans. That's a 29,600× gap. → Of the...

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Who's going to pay for it? Because the taxpayers shouldn't be paying for it. Either share the utility in Missouri. The town needed about a $30 million water upgrade.

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They didn't have the funds. We need more water, but we're going to tie it into making sure that we can fund this. A lot of times the news will just say, Amazon came in, Intel came in,

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and they're using 10 million gallons of water. And I'm like, yes, true, they did. But they also put $50 million into the water utility to upgrade the facility plant, put in all the lines,

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