DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The cost of building an artificial intelligence product like ChatGPT can be hard to measure.
To keep it cool on hot days, data centers need to pump in water — often to a cooling tower outside its warehouse-sized buildings.
The estimate includes indirect water usage that the companies don’t measure — such as to cool power plants that supply the data centers with electricity.
It was also thirsty in Iowa, drawing more potable water to its Council Bluffs data centers than anywhere else.
Its fourth and fifth data centers are due to open there later this year.
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