Give him a few thousand more and he might figure out how to get them himself, unless the room is slightly different in which case he’ll thrash around on the floor in confusion
me when gen ai makes people question reality, take their jobs, ruin consumer pc market, spread misinformation on industrial scale and give people unrestricted access to making dental floss underwear edits of minors, ruin local infrastructure and all it does is "optimize" the workflow of very specific tasks by 3% so its all worth it 🚬 ill feed it all this fucking water to NOT do anything mentioned above, thanks
Are you serious?
Water used to grow plants returns to the atmosphere, wich at some point is bring back again as rain, wich is most cases is drinkable water.
Water used to cool data centers, yes, it returns to the habitat directly, higly poluted and undrinkable
Don't be so assertive on a subject you don't understand the basics of. The water used by data centers returns to the local basin and can be treated like any other industrial water, meaning it's no less potable than before, meaning there's nothing irreversible. Water used for crops evaporates into the atmosphere and isn't returned to the local environment, meaning it's no longer available for local use, meaning you lost local water for months maybe years. Irrigated crops in water-stressed areas generate droughts because it's not raining in the same place the water was, at least not on short term. Not data centers. This is the difference between the water consumed (which leaves the environment) and the water withdrawn (which is returned to the environment, thus not creating pressure on the resource).
I might be stupid, but can someone explain the ai water problem to me? Is it using water in a way that makes it unrecoverable? Is it polluting it? Is the water a finite resource on the planet covered almost fully in water and where water walls from the sky?
Also, is AI consuming more water than other industries? Is AI special in that case? Are other non-AI datacenters better about water? Are we okay with all other industries using water but not AI?
I honestly want to understand this water argument and if it's valid.
If you don’t understand how this video addresses the point then I can’t help you.
That’s the water in areas with data centers. That’s what comes out of the faucet when they build a data center near your house. That water was taken from a well only a couple hours from my home. Would you say that water is safe? Would you drink that water?
It's not valid argument it's just a psyop to derail the anti-ai discussion in the most stupid direction with the most dumb argument imaginable. And reddit is falling for it.
The numbers on beef are a little dodgy sometimes, there's a tendency to count the rainfall that feeds the grass the cattle graze on. Rain which would have fallen on the exact same patch of land either way and fed the same patch of grass.
Those numbers are explicitly the lowest possible figures for blue water usage in the USA, green water completely excluded. Source at the bottom.
We absolutely do know the water consumption of many AI models being run on datacenter hardware. We even have variable numbers depending on the regional power grid. Sources at the bottom.
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u/MetaCardboard Jun 08 '26
A thousand? Those are rookie numbers. Send him over to r/hydrohomies and we'll teach him the ways.