Everybody is talking about AI in the news, but nearly nobody talks about its environmental impact, especially water usage.
https://wpmu.mau.se/msm24group5/2024/10/16/your-cloud-dries-up-my-river/

>>511225153 (OP)
Why would a data center willingly employ the use of an unreliable water source?
Without water, its electronics will quickly overheat and be damaged, causing both a loss of the company's revenue as well as catastropic repair costs

Something's fishy about this story, I don't buy it

AI water consumption is basically nothing on a global scale. Especially because data centres recycle water.

>>511225426
Reading comprehension?

>>511225426
Here in Greece there are 18 datacenters to be built by 2030. We have a water problem, and the goverment wants central organisations to handle the country’s water usage. Datacenter water supply is reliable by using political means to take the water away from farming

>>511225511
No they don’t. The water is evaporated in water cooling towers

>>511225511
It's almost like those arguing it hurts things don't understand that water is used to cool things but is not destroyed in the process.

>>511225511
>chat query
They’re all scaling up anon, massively, it ain’t just chat queries, quit being a shill with your old data in a fast moving unregulated industry

AI shouldn’t be abolished, butlerian jihad now!

>>511225709
Do you think Meta, X are gonna help treat the water after it’s been used and sent to waste?

>>511225153 (OP)
Everybody is talking about """AI""" in the news but nobody is talking about the fact that """AI""" doesn't exist.

>>511225153 (OP)
>noooo you cannot use water and slightly heat it up, it will damage the environment

well guess we'll develop a new refrigerant chemical that poisons everything and fucks you up

>>511225153 (OP)
What the fuck is water usage? Where does the water go after it's been used?

>>511225639
I think they should be blown up

>>511225153 (OP)
>"Value is extracted from the rural and jobs go to the urban"
yeah, we should make data center jobs for manual laborers, think of the bit-diggers!

>>511225899
its goes back into the river 100% unpolluted, just slightly warm

>>511225899
>Where does the water go after it's been used?
Somewhere other than where it came from.

>>511225683
and then what it goes into space?

>>511226073
>and then what
And then you've drained water from a water source. Do Ameriniggers comprehend the basics of physical reality?

>>511226073
It goes to China for cloud seeding rains maybe

>>511225153 (OP)
>especially water usage.
fucking electricity
and who pays for it.
(You)

>>511225153 (OP)
Sorry but i need my chat bot waifus