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How many liters of water does training a large AI model like GPT-4 use?

About 700,000 liters

Background

Training big language models needs huge amounts of water to cool the servers. For GPT-4 it was estimated at around 700,000 liters. That is enough to build about 370 cars. This is why many companies now look for cooler locations for their data centers.

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