For The Washington Post, Pranshu Verma and Shelly Tan illustrate the scale of energy and water used to generate email with ChatGPT. One email from a GPT-4 language model requires about one bottle of water (for cooling data centers).
You can easily extrapolate that over many emails and many people over months and years. Then there’s the water used to train the models. That’s a lot of water.
Although, if generative email becomes a thing among the masses, what are we even doing?
