Is that including the water going into everything a person consumes (it kind of can’t be since AI would.be part of that)? Afaik including the water used for making all the stuff a person consumes increases that figure by an order of magnitude and a bit. So more like 70 million people.
Which isn’t nothing, but most of datacenter water use is also just for cooling, so it doesn’t need to be drinkable water in the first place (though it currently often is). The waste heat can really fuck with local ecosystems though.
Dude. Why the fuck are you trying to minimize the catastrophic harm of AI data centers?
It’s not like your “corrections”, if they’re even true, make them anything other than a gigantic waste of resources both natural, economic, and societal, as well as a grotesquely severe environmental hazard.
And that’s not even getting into the number of people who will either be unemployed or forced to waste ridiculous numbers of hours correcting AI errors for shit wages.
Because there’s like 10000 things wrong with AI and we don’t need to blow a comparatively minor (but still fucking dumb given how little we really get out of it, plus the fact that many AI datacenters do use municipal water supply which is kinda horrid) out of proportion. Particularly because this minimizes how much water we already use in general, which is a massive problem.
It’s also just a sensationalist, intentionally misleading headline, and that’s not something I want to leave unadressed ever. Shitty journalism is a huge part of how the world got into this state in the first place.
If you think sticking to facts is “minimizing harm” then idk what to tell you. The claimed 1 billion people have the same water use as around 100 million us-americans, going from the cited water use figure for AI in 2030. Home water use only, which again is usually <10% of total water used for everything consumed.
None of that means it’s not one of the dumbest possible things to use this much energy (which is most of the water use) on.
Is that including the water going into everything a person consumes (it kind of can’t be since AI would.be part of that)? Afaik including the water used for making all the stuff a person consumes increases that figure by an order of magnitude and a bit. So more like 70 million people.
Which isn’t nothing, but most of datacenter water use is also just for cooling, so it doesn’t need to be drinkable water in the first place (though it currently often is). The waste heat can really fuck with local ecosystems though.
Dude. Why the fuck are you trying to minimize the catastrophic harm of AI data centers?
It’s not like your “corrections”, if they’re even true, make them anything other than a gigantic waste of resources both natural, economic, and societal, as well as a grotesquely severe environmental hazard.
And that’s not even getting into the number of people who will either be unemployed or forced to waste ridiculous numbers of hours correcting AI errors for shit wages.
Because there’s like 10000 things wrong with AI and we don’t need to blow a comparatively minor (but still fucking dumb given how little we really get out of it, plus the fact that many AI datacenters do use municipal water supply which is kinda horrid) out of proportion. Particularly because this minimizes how much water we already use in general, which is a massive problem.
It’s also just a sensationalist, intentionally misleading headline, and that’s not something I want to leave unadressed ever. Shitty journalism is a huge part of how the world got into this state in the first place.
If you think sticking to facts is “minimizing harm” then idk what to tell you. The claimed 1 billion people have the same water use as around 100 million us-americans, going from the cited water use figure for AI in 2030. Home water use only, which again is usually <10% of total water used for everything consumed.
None of that means it’s not one of the dumbest possible things to use this much energy (which is most of the water use) on.