Beyond CO2 Emissions: The Overlooked Impact of Water Consumption of Information Retrieval Models

Towards Sustainable Consumption and Production in a Thirsty World: Progress and Challenges in Water Footprint Assessment

“…However, much less is known about the unintended water externalities of these data centers. Some recent studies have tried to estimate the water footprint of artificial intelligence models or information retrieval systems, but efforts are still insufficient [30,31].…”