Speakers · Company executive

Sam Altman

CEO, OpenAI

2 statements, June 16, 2025 to September 2, 2026. Statements appear as said, with the date and the source. No verdict is attached.

Last verified September 6, 2026

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Electricity
Water

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Sam Altman

The average query uses about 0.34 watt hours and about 0.000085 gallons of water, roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon.

Quoted · June 16, 2025, Personal blog, The Gentle Singularity · blog.samaltman.com

Sam Altman

About 38,000 ChatGPT queries use the water of one California almond; modern large data centers use about as much water as an office building; evaporative cooling has not been used in a long time. Speaker said the figure was from memory and might be wrong.

Paraphrased · September 2, 2026, Sources podcast with Alex Heath · Tom's Hardware

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Slug: sam-altman
Speaker id: 9a038251-7f2e-4caa-94e9-cf21dddd51f0
Speaker type value: executive
Statements: 2
Topics: power, water