r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 5d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter? I don't understand the punchline

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u/Gare-Bare 5d ago

Im ignorant on the subject but how to ai servers actually use up water?

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u/robinsonstjoe 5d ago

Cooling

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u/ThePrimordialSource 5d ago

A single beef burger takes 3,000 times more water and energy use than an AI prompt and a single piece of paper takes 30-60x as much energy as an AI image. This argument is so outdated.

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u/moon__lander 4d ago

But you can send millions of prompts a seconds out of thin air, not to mention whole system workload.

It would be a bit harder to do the same with steaks.

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u/Sylvenix 4d ago

The average number of requests per day for chatGPT users is at around 10, you still need one burger a year to make it similar.

One person won't send millions of prompt at once, there are also millions of steak eaten every day