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A 2024 estimate put a 100-word GPT-4 email at 519 millilitres of water, while training GPT-3 may have directly consumed enough for 350,000 people to drink for a day
The 500-millilitre-per-query figure for ChatGPT comes from a 2024 UC Riverside and Washington Post collaboration, and training a single large model can evaporate 5.4 million gallons — enough drinking water for 300,000 people for a day. The fight over that number is now a projected $58 billion US infrastructure problem.
In 1859, a solar storm now called the Carrington Event pushed auroras as far south as Cuba and set telegraph paper on fire in offices from Boston to Paris, with operators reporting they could still send messages after disconnecting the batteries because the wires were carrying the storm's own current.
A grid-scale battery ferry roughly 130 metres long is now crossing the Río de la Plata between Argentina and Uruguay carrying about 2,100 passengers on charge alone, making it the largest all-electric passenger vessel ever floated
What happened when engineers built a single dam across the neck of a dying inland sea, and the northern lobe rose roughly four metres while fish returned to villages that had been stranded 100 kilometres from any shore?
Why does a deep-water shark in the Arctic routinely live past 400 years while spending almost all of that time functionally blind and moving barely faster than a walking human?
World's biggest sovereign fund pleads to save oceans
Will Sudan's peace deal with rebels work?
Who could have sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines?
White House rejects talks offer from Venezuela's Maduro
West, Russia trade pressure on energy as Ukraine goes on attack
Weariness and low expectations greet latest S.Sudan deal
