1 California almond uses as much water as 38,000 ChatGPT queries: Sam Altman

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has dismissed concerns over AI's water consumption, saying producing a single California-grown almond uses as much water as 38,000 ChatGPT queries. "People...who're scarfing down 12 almonds at a time don't feel like they're doing something horrible...from a water perspective," he said. Altman also claimed a modern data centre consumes as much water as an office building.