Why do AI chats cost drinkable water? (only for curious)

0:00why does AI need drinkable water to run

0:02every single message that you send to an AI

0:05model uses drinkable water

0:06but how does it happen

0:07that a message that I sent to an AI

0:09bot uses drinkable water

0:11and for an estimate about 20 messages to CGPT3

0:14uses half a litre of drinkable water

0:17which is a whole water bottle

0:18and so why does this whole process happen

0:21and why exactly drinkable water

0:23now the first thing we need to understand is

0:25what happens when you send the message to an AI model

0:28because all that AI is

0:29is a lot of calculations done by a computer

0:32and these computers

0:33are located inside of these large data centers

0:36and so when you send the message to an AI

0:39it sends it to these computers to do the calculation

0:42and when you send your message to these computers

0:44they need to start processing the message

0:46and this processing by the chips that are used

0:49uses so much computing power

0:50that it generates a lot of heat

0:52and exactly as you have a computer at home

0:54that uses small cooling fans

0:56because the computer

0:57still is doing some kind of calculations

0:59it's just on a much smaller scale

1:01these computers that are in the big data

1:03data centers need to be somehow cooled down as well

1:06but because they are so large

1:08they need to use a completely different scale

1:10of cooling themselves down

1:11and just as nuclear power plants

1:13they have these large cooling towers

1:15and they use water

1:16because water is an amazing heat absorbent

1:18but then why use drinkable water

1:20if you have so much water

1:21for example in the ocean

1:22well exactly as the nuclear plants

1:24they use something as the primary and secondary

1:27cooling system

1:28where

1:28the primary cooling system is what comes into contact

1:31with the computers

1:31which is usually some kind of a more advanced liquid

1:34for example propylene glycol mixtures

1:36which is what cools down the computers

1:38but when it gets heated

1:39and it's going from the computers

1:41we need to cool it down

1:42and that's where the secondary cooling

1:43loop comes into play

1:45and the secondary is where the drinkable

1:46water gets used

1:47these two liquids meet with metal pipes

1:50because metal is an amazing heat transfer

1:52and so the first heated liquid comes

1:54and it meets with the cooled water

1:57that then gets heated but it cools down this liquid

1:59that then goes again to the computers

2:01but then we have this heated water

2:03that we need to send to the cooling towers

2:06which of course creates steam

2:07that is then sent from this cooling tower

2:09and so

2:09using non drinkable water would cause many problems

2:12first of all

2:13because it would contain a lot more minerals

2:15and when this water would turn into the steam

2:17it would leave these minerals behind

2:19which would cause something called scaling

2:21which we can see all around us

2:22even on a sink

2:23which would then block

2:24and completely destroy the whole cooling process

2:27and the second reason is corrosion

2:28because these metal pipes

2:29if they were met with something that is non drinkable

2:32it would cause corrosion on these metal pipes

2:34which would make them completely unusable

2:36and that's not all because these cooling towers

2:39they are wet and they are warm

2:41that's a perfect environment for fungi to exist

2:44if you send their water

2:45that hasn't been processed and cleaned

2:46it would be a perfect environment for bacteria to exist

2:50and that would again

2:51completely destroy the cooling process

2:53and so

2:53this is a large problem that still hasn't been solved

2:56I'm not the smartest person of all

2:57but I just tried sharing what I found out

2:59because I believe that this is something

3:01that more people should know about

3:02and so the real question is

3:03was it worth it to ask GPT

3:05why is sky blue at the cost of drinkable water