The water footprint of Artificial Intelligence The ecological consequences of using GPT Chat
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(April 02, 2025. El Venezolano).- Artificial intelligence platforms that create visual content are generating a massive consumption of natural resources, with a water expense that reaches worrying figures, especially in a context of scarcity in several regions. While social networks were filled this week with illustrations generated by artificial intelligence in the Studio Ghibli style, an unexpected environmental concern arose: the massive cons…
The controversy over this tool revolves around the use of millions of liters of water that demands to create content with AI. In this note we give you all the details. Through Facebook, a Ghibli-style image was viralized by the team of presenters of the magazine El Mañanero de la Red Uno, along with a text that says: “How do we see ourselves from hentai?” (sic). However, after a review of the original post it was found that the publication was e…
Channel C ChatGPT and water consumption: the hidden cost of the Ghibli photos The networks were filled with "chibbling" portraits with AI, that fleeting fashion that turns selfies into scenes from Studio Ghibli. But behind the digital charm there is a raw fact: every image generated consumes drinking water, an increasingly scarce resource. Servers like ChatGPT and DALL-E require constant cooling, and even though companies speak of "digital cloud…
It is believed that the Studio Ghibli-style images caused the waste of 200 million liters of water needed to cool the servers. The risks of progress, from the perspective of Argentine experts.
The growing demand for AI-generated illustrations, such as those inspired by Studio Ghibli, poses environmental challenges related to water consumption in data centers The ethical debate with the use of Ghibli Miyazaki-style images already loaded


According to a new study, training a single large language model such as GPT-3, so that AI imaging tools perform Studio Ghibli-style productions or applications such as DALL-E or Midjourney can be operational, results in evaporation of up to 5.4 million litres of water. This figure includes server cooling, through water-based systems in data centers, and water indirectly used in electricity generation.
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