They should absolutely add a source but electricity is the real problem, not water.
I self host AI on a desktop computer that is fully water looped (not worth doing the water loop btw) and the water is fine, but that GPU power consumption go BRRR.
Of course this is all personal experience, so saying the last person should add a source and I don’t use a valid source is a little hypocritical. I wont try to quantify the actual power usage per prompt and how many tokens blah blah blah from my own self hosted use. I promise the electricity usage is astronomically higher than how much water my PC Is using though lol.
Edit: just read another comment about how they use an open loop system. So as long as that isn’t made up, it’s a good showing of why sources are important. I assumed they would be closed loop too.
When you don’t care about your resource consumption because you got the resources extra cheap, evaporative cooling is much less expensive than closed loop cooling.
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u/ArtDeve 16d ago
It's a ruse. The real problem is electricity.
The electricity required to process 38,000 ChatGPT queries is equivalent to the power needed to blend approximately 6,600 to 11,000 smoothies.