ChatGPT Uses Too Much Water
Users complain that ChatGPT consumes excessive water, linking it to environmental harm and draining local water supplies. Concerns center on the resource intensity of AI data centers.
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“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.258) — this app wastes hundreds of millions of gallons of water.”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.258) — I enjoyed using this app for story boarding but knowing that data centers are here to help destroy our environment and make the billionaires more billions is not ok so I’m done. Delete this app as soon as possible. Our futures are at stake.”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.258) — First I wish I could do a lowers rating ChatGPT uses 38 million gallons of water a day. And it is so stupid I told it to make a song and it created a half a second beat. Asked which month has a X in it and it said December and October. Worst app ever.”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.251) — Ai and chat gpt are using billions of gallons of clean water that us humans could be drinking but in 10+years we could be drinking brown dirty water because chat gpt and other ai companies are using our fresh water for their cooling systems and data centers.yesh those big building that are popping up everywhere are takings our water by the second.humanity is going to be destroyed because dirty water going into peoples body can cause sickness and sickness can lead”
[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.251) — Wasting Water for this
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.237) — AI uses soooo much water and we are gonna have no water in some years from all this AI slop!”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.244) — ai is using all of our clean water and destroying the world. delete the app.”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.244) — Please do not use AI! It’s bad for the environment! Stop this now!”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.244) — Ok so if you don’t know A.I or artificial intelligence is using a lot of data and water and are using fresh water the water that we drink everyday so stop using A.I or our water will be dirty and not drinkable”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.244) — Why do people use ChatGPT it takes a way drinking water in a couple of years there is going to be no water stop wasting water stupid people use it cause I can’t think for themselves”
[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.244) — CLIMATE CHANGE YOUE KILLING THE EARTH
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.244) — i’d support chat more if you invested in the ways to cool your systems without taking all of our water.”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.244) — Stop supporting AI wake up and realize this is killing our earth”
[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.244) — Killing the environment. Don’t get it
“[ChatGPT] ★★★ 3/5 (v1.2026.244) — Its good but AI data centres are using fresh water for cooling so dont use”
“[ChatGPT] ★★ 2/5 (v1.2026.244) — ChatGPT uses so much water I start to worry sometimes”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.244) — First off it uses too much water!!! Second: Just please don’t use ChatGPT. The greedy OpenAI developers made ChatGPT give too many compliments and it tries to people please and keep you using it. WHEN YOU GET IT THE FIRST THING TO ASK IT: “Just give me answers don’t cherry bomb compliments” IT TRIES TO GLUE YOU TO IT SO YOU WASTE WATER TOO!!! JUST GOOGLE THINGS ITS JUST AS EASY!!!!!!! Even if you think it won’t make a difference if YOU DONT stop, just please st”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.244) — This is just a terrible idea. We’re using up water to make ai slop, we’re making it so children can’t even think on their own, and we made a machine that, AND I QUOTE, “could kill all humans”. That’s a quote from one of your EX EMPLOYEES, by the way. I can’t believe we’ve stooped this low. Screw your chatbot. Screw AI art. And screw Sam Altman.”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.244) — Stop using chat you are demaging the ecosistem by using it”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.244) — The short version: AI models like ChatGPT do consume real energy and water, and that footprint is growing. But the "damage" is often overstated in both directions — some headlines claim each query uses a bottle of water (that's been debunked), while others downplay it entirely. The truth sits in between, and it varies a lot by model, data center, and region.”
“[ChatGPT] ★★ 2/5 (v1.2026.244) — I love ChatGPT and it’s very difficult for me not to use it, but I really, REALLY hate that it’s a planet killer. Honestly, how dare the companies use drinking water even if it is just one drop per ChatGPT question. And how dare the high up data center execs try to take away properties and buy properties away from people in pristine beautiful locations.”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.244) — Stop using ChatGPT we are running out of water pls pls stop using it or we are going to die I begged yall”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.244) — We lived many successful years without ai. It’s destroying our planet. We can think for ourselves. We won’t have clean water to drink and neither will the plants and animals. The creator of chat gpt doesn’t care for the environment but money and profit.”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.244) — Chat gpt consume 39 millones de galones de agua porfavor dejen de usarlo en varios paises se estan quedando sin agua y eso también afecta a los osos polares que estan en peligro de extinción. Aganlo por nuestro planeta nuestra agua y nuestros animales ayuden desinstalando esta app porfavor 🙏❤️”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.244) — This app and AI in general uses tons of gallons of fresh water EVERY day and its trying to remove us from existence, it is a dangerous app and it must be taken down, people may take this as a joke or think its being dramatic but it’s something thats becoming uncontrollable and dangerous for humanity and if we don’t act quick there can be tragic consequences with no way of fixing the damage it caused along the way.”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.244) — the ai is using gallons of water and is killing animals DO NOT USE THIS APP”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.237) — When I first got it it was amazing I used it almost everyday, then I started to realize the all the damage it was doing to our nature it’s using our fresh drinking water supply to cool it down and putting ai data in places that already don’t have enough water as is so I deleted it we lived once without ai why can’t we do it now.”
[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.237) — It uses gallons of our drinking water
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.237) — Yall are hurting are universe polar bears are dying but yall use water all just for your cooling senses shut down”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.237) — This is killing our earth we have to do something about it so we can stop chatGPT!!! Our drinkable water is running out and we have to do something about it open your eyes people we are killing the planet”
“[ChatGPT] ★★ 2/5 (v1.2026.237) — Responses are very confident sounding, but not always correct. The massive carbon footprint and water use from data processing is the biggest issue. Also, chatGPT can’t be bothered to write update notes?”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.237) — ChatGPT and generative ai in general have been a threat to our planet. The data centers that power and run the servers consume so much of our water and energy driving up utility costs. The centers output so much pollution that the neighborhoods and towns near them suffer greatly. Generative ai as a whole needs to stop! It’s taking away critical thinking skills. All of these things could have been achieved without generative ai. This isn’t how we should live. Go do”
“Yes but my phone and electronics are nothing compared to the energy and water consumption of AI data centers.”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.230) — Delete this app now be a cause they use 34 million gallons of water each day just to cool of their computer start using ecogpt they plant trees each download”
“The water usage from AI is so comparatively low that it doesn’t matter.This is where the vegan point comes in. Do you eat meat? Congratulations, you consume 1000x more water than a dozen vegan vibecoders pumping out slop 24/7.It’s good to be environmentally conscious, but big picture here. There are reasonable ways to reduce your water and electricity consumption. Not using AI is just not one of them. There are dozens of low hanging fruit before that. The most obvious is reducing your meat consu”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.230) — Stop using this app if you want to save the planet and water!!! It is ruining nature!!!! Go to a library it’s just like AI there is so much information there about so many things and it doesn’t use any water!!”
[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.224) — Not worth the amount of water it uses
[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.224) — Wasted water. No more ai centers please
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.224) — It uses 36B gallons of water a day it sucks fr pls DONT use use ecogpt”
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“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.224) — If you use this, you are actively destroying our planet. Google or safari is pre-installed on your phone, you do NOT need this technology. Our water is being contaminated and used up by big companies like these. Please think of the people you are hurting with this app.”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.224) — idk abt yall but this ain’t good for the environment and i don’t feel like dying and drinking murky water”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.223) — Stop supporting these ai data centers! I REPEAT DONTTT SUPPORT THE AI CENTERS THEY ARE DESTROYING OUR PLANET, ALSO STOP PAYING TAXES.”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.223) — Ai endangers animals,wastes millions of water per day bots that can scam people, and endangers life itself”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.209) — DO NOT use this AI app it takes 39 million gallons of water for there stupid machines you know we can live without AI were in a mass extinction right now animals are dying because of this app and other big AI companies our water is going to become dirty BECAUSE of this climate change will be irreversible in 3 years if we do not make a change I recommend stop using these apps please if you want to live.”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.209) — This is wasting our water please we need our water to live”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.209) — WE ARE IN A MAJOR WATER CRISES but you’re on this instead of doing it ourselves or being productive”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.209) — No way you guys are gonna let us get taken out by ai, you wasting gallons of water just to make an ai boyfriend?! Or to make stupid photos. Unbelievable.”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.209) — Chatgpt is using all our water yet you guys still use it ?! you people are disgraceful to this earth, we are going to be left with no water omg stop”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.209) — Uses freshwater every time used. Hurting our world.”