There's nothing hard to explain for historians of the future: it was the second gilded age that saw the buildup of the techno-fascist infrastructure by greedy billionaires - sorry, trillionaires - in cahoots with the government. Now get back in line to get counted citizen...
grok is using delicious clean drinking water from the memphis sands aquifer for cooling. elon promised to build a water treatment plant in order to stop using drinking water but, and you’ll never believe this, he didn’t.
fuck elon.
please do not use grok.
I think it's pretty easy. We let the rich rule our world, and the rich demanded this, and so a lot of people just let it happen through bribes.
Reminds me of how Britain starved India cause it forced them to grow tea instead of food for themselves.
Meanwhile we have commercials on the radio "debunking" the myth that data centers waste a ton of water. We're brainwashing the people, which is becoming easier as our braincells waste away using LLMs.
One report estimated that U.S. data centers consume 449 million gallons of water per day and 163.7 billion gallons annually (as of 2021).
That estimate was from 2021.
Now it's at least around 600 million gallons of water per day.
Corporate capture of our government has destroyed our country, and will soon destroy our entire way of life. If we stop all harmful emissions today, the planet will still warm for another 20-30 years before it starts going back down. 30 more years of hotter summers, shortened winters, extended hurricane seasons, extended and worse droughts/wildfires...
The people that approved these data centers should be charged with crimes against humanity.
We need to make evaporation cooling illegal. They can make a closed loop system like Nvidia uses but they won't, because it's more expensive. We need the law to force them to.
Future? Historians?
You are funny.
The worst part is all that drinking water is being wasted semi-permanently. Most of it then goes to the sea and becomes saltwater. Even if the US heavily invested into desalination plants right now - it'd take decades to potentially retrieve most of that.
All that for... another economic crisis?
Per day? Per year? Per second?
Sounds like a lot of water, but you can't just give an amount of water when you're talking about the rate of something.
Related Digital’s development of a $16 billion data center in Saline Township, Michigan is moving forward after they sued the local government in response to the locals voting AGAINST the construction. They’re just going to ignore the people’s vote
The drought statistic is true but the water consumption one is batshit insane lmao. It all comes form a press firm called Mordor Intelligence which hasn't meaningfully backed up that claim.
AI datacenters are likely to not even breach 100 billion gallons BY 2028. (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/08/datacenter-ai-drought-water)
Obviously that's still a lot of water, but 264 billion gallons right now is an absurd claim.
The likely irony that these data centres will be used in the pipeline of creating a commercial for bottled water.
Not to mention the fact that AI companies aren't even profitable
New rule: no water cooling in DCs. Air cooling and air con.
That and some hard rules on power usage would go a long way. If the US ever updates its infrastructure, and especially for power, that should open up new, safe options that don't kill or poison people.
For the mean time, though, let's stop the insanity.
False! Tge fruit videos are the side project! The real project is undressing minors and generating them doing CP! If you don't believe me, just ask grok!
The future will talk in awe and condemnation about the scale of our beef consumption.
The amount of water it took to grow the feed they ate.
The amount of greenhouse gases it created.
The fact that the land use required was the size of north america.
The suffering that was required to inflict on the animals themselves.
They won't mention data centers at all.
How about you link a real source instead of some rando.
If this article is correct i guess we can have AI fruit videos if we skip meat and dairy a day or two a month. https://veganhorizon.substack.com/p/ai-vs-animal-agriculture-the-numbers
They'd need to be dead inside to not grok it
As it's always been, come on now.
No they won't. We do this kind of thing all the time.
The Egyptians build pyramids.
The Babylonians build a tower.
The people of Peru drew the Nazca lines. (very drought related)
The people of the Chaco Canyon built huge structures and a large civilization. Then had to abandon it all during a epic drought.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaco_Culture_National_Historical_Park
But the all time winner is the destruction of the Aral sea by the soviet union.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea
Define "consume".. where does the water go, again?
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