Can chatting with ChatGPT or other generative AI actually lead to water consumption? Two seemingly impossible events have recently been linked together due to a report from a technology giant. Google's recent 2023 environmental report shows that its water consumption increased significantly by 20% year-on-year last year, reaching 5.6 billion gallons, with the vast majority being used to cool the company's data center. This is not an exception. At the beginning of 2023, ChatGPT, created by OpenAI, became a global phenomenon level application in the field of artificial intelligence and sparked an AIGC arms race among global internet companies. To conduct extensive training on AI, it means that stronger computing power centers and matching heat dissipation capabilities are needed. On the path of rapid progress in AI, the consumption of water resources is also constantly increasing and upgrading. Experts told the Daily Economic News that overall, water consumption in data centers has become one of the factors restricting the rapid development of data centers. They called for the establishment of a set of standardized and unified standards and utilization efficiency evaluation methods for data center water use as soon as possible. "This will become another key standard tool for data centers to achieve green and low-carbon development. Google consumed 5.6 billion gallons of water last year. Recently, technology giant Google released its 2023 environmental report, which attracted widespread attention from the industry and market. The report shows that Google consumed 5.6 billion gallons of water in 2022 under the "water consumption" category. If we don't have much concept in this way, we can make a more intuitive comparison: according to third-party statistics, 5.6 billion gallons are equivalent to the annual water consumption of a first tier city in China, or 1/4 of the daily drinking water consumption of the world. Some people also say that this amount of water is equivalent to the water consumption of 37 golf courses, which can approximately fill one and a half West Lake. What is even more worrying is that this number has increased by 20% compared to Google's report last year. Although Google stated that its goal is to replenish 120% of the fresh water consumed by its offices and data centers by 2030, according to this report, the current replenishment rate is only 6%, far from the target. Such a large amount of water consumption makes it curious: as a technology company, what business does Google consume so much water? The answer is: heat up the data center. The report shows that out of 5.6 billion gallons of water consumption, 5.2 billion is used in the company's data center, clearly demonstrating the environmental costs involved in running a large data center. Some professionals point out that a 20% increase in water consumption is roughly consistent with the growth of Google's computing power, which is mainly driven by artificial intelligence. In other words, since ChatGPT and generative artificial intelligence technology became popular worldwide last year, Google's water consumption has also started to significantly increase, and the extensive training of AI has become the core reason for data center water consumption. Researchers from the University of Colorado and the University of Texas also published estimates of water usage for training AI in a preprint paper titled "Making AI More Water Efficient," which showed that the amount of clean water required to train GPT-3 was equivalent to filling a nuclear reactor with cooling water