Critics Furious Microsoft Is Training AI by Sucking Up Water During Drought

Amidst a more than three-year drought, the Associated Press reported that Microsoft's three data centers in Central Iowa guzzled a massive amount of water from local sources last year — to cool the supercomputers that were training OpenAI's ChatGPT-4, the Microsoft-backed company's most advanced publicly available large language model (LLM). This has some in Iowa […]

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