Sam Altman claims an average ChatGPT query uses roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon of water

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman highlighted that an average ChatGPT query consumes approximately 0.000085 gallons of water and 0.34 watt-hours of energy, emphasizing the relatively low resource footprint of individual AI interactions. He suggests that the cost of AI intelligence may eventually align closely with electricity costs, underscoring the importance of energy efficiency in AI development. This perspective comes amid growing scrutiny of AI's environmental impact, with concerns that AI data centers could surpass Bitcoin mining in power consumption by year's end. Altman's figures aim to provide a clearer understanding of AI's resource use, although OpenAI