Not just water, but also resources: electricity, RAM and Flash memory, other things being over-consumed by the AI development explosion. This war doesn't have geographic or national boundaries, its the (heavily funded) AI companies vs everyone else.

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[–] -2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

water is cheap and electricity usually (ignoring hydro solar and wind) consumes about as much as the datacenter does directly to produce.

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