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You might not realize it, but each time you interact with ChatGPT or some other cloud-based artificial-intelligence technology, water evaporates into thin air.
All else being the same, “the bigger model, in general, is going to consume more resources and more water,” said Shaolei Ren, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Riverside, who has studied the technology’s water requirements. All told, the 5.4 million liters of water directly and indirectly consumed in training GPT-3 is equivalent to 1.4 million gallons. That’s about the amount of water 13, according to an estimate from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — the difference being that most water used in homes goes down the drain and back into the watershed.Microsoft declined to directly respond to Ren’s research.
Assuming each of those visits resulted in a single query and ChatGPT has the same energy and water requirements as the base GPT-3, those March prompts would have resulted in the evaporation of 8 million gallons of water. That’s about the equivalent of what 73 American families use at home in a year. Developers and data-center operators can limit the amount of water that evaporates when training AI models and head off local water conflicts, according to Ren’s paper, on which Pengfei Li, a Ph.D. candidate from UC Riverside, was the lead author. When ambient temperatures are lower, data centers and power plants require less water for cooling. So developers could be more water-efficient by training models at night or in the winter months.
Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, a mayoral candidate, recently announced a housing plan for his prospective administration. Farrell and Peskin’s prescribed solutions to The City’s housing woes differ radically, with the former seeking to get government out of the way and the latter calling for government to be an active facilitator.
Farrell told The Examiner that he doesn’t believe “every neighborhood in San Francisco should look the same,” but The City can still reach state-mandated housing goals through measures such as “targeted upzoning across every other neighborhood.”Rather than laying blame at the feet of anti-housing city legislators, Peskin has attributed the lethargic pace of housing development to high-interest rates and “risk-averse” capital.
Farrell has also called for ending the current caps on how many units can be built into a single building, but would maintain height limits. On the surface, it offers assurance to neighborhood preservationists that new apartment towers won’t be built next door. Peskin often fields critique from housing advocates such as Smith, but not in this case — though Smith said he wants to see more details from Peskin’s plan.
, and I believe the mayor needs to provide a credible plan to build 82,000 units in San Francisco that will take the target off our back,” Farrell said. “If we take care of our own house in San Francisco, we can retain local control.”“We have the mayor’s housing plan,” he said. “It’s detailed; it’s thoughtful; it’s not completely done by any means — but it’s really additive.”The City Hall building is shown in San Francisco on Jan. 7, 2020.
The hearing was the first of a special committee formed in response to recent allegations of serial abuse lodged against local Democratic leaders. The committee aims to draft a new code of conduct by August for the local party. Aguilar said Ortiz and Jacobo ran in similar circles, with the former supporting the Mission Street Vendors Association while the latter served as a spokesperson.The accusations also stirred up renewed criticism of Jay Cheng, executive director of Neighbors for a Better San Francisco, who disclosed to local party chair Nancy Tung that he was— which he denies — while attending UC Irvine in 2011.
Finally, the committee will present the code of conduct to the DCCC and all of its chartered clubs to adopt by the August charter-renewal deadline. “Many of our political spaces in San Francisco revolve around alcohol, revolve around late nights, revolve around a lack of boundaries,” she said. “So I am grateful this community is being created.”
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