October Tip: Be thoughtful when using AI

While AI can be a useful tool, it is important to understand that it hurts our environment. Perhaps the most concerning is the large amounts of water needed to cool electrical components.

“According to the Washington Post in collaboration with the University of California, Riverside, writing a single 100-word email in Open AI's ChatGPT is the equivalent of consuming just over one bottle of water.

In a more extreme example, if 1 in 10 Americans used ChatGPT weekly for a year, it would require the amount of water equal to that used by the entirety of Rhode Island — for 1.5 days.”

Check your setting on your search engines so they aren’t programed to use AI automatically when you search. That would help conserve our precious resource.