AI data centers are also gobbling down massive amounts of electricity, stressing the grid, giving consumers higher bills for worse service. All for something that pretty much everyone hates.
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there doesn't seem to be anything here
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According to a July 2025 investigation by The Austin Chronicle
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According to the Chronicle article
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“Once that water evaporates, it’s just gone,” Mace told The Austin Chronicle.
one of my journalism pet peeves - they don't link to that original source article, from only 4 days ago, but this entire article is basically just a rewrite / rewording of it. all of the sources quoted are from the Austin Chronicle, they don't seem to have done any original reporting.
and on the sidebar, the top link on "Editor's Picks" is "10 Most Successful Shark Tank Products" which is pretty obviously just an ad disguised as an article. so this "Techie Gamers" website seems like a pretty shitty clickbait farm.
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The best part of this is they plan to irrigate crops with reclaimed fracking water!
Cue millions of Texans asking ChatGPT: "How can I take a shorter shower?"
Everytime I hear anything about these data centers it's something like this. They come into a community and fuck with the residents. They pollute the air, the water, they use up all the water, they cause noise pollution. It's absurd.
The worst thing is the majority of these aren’t like the AI your little brother uses when he logs into the chatgpt app. Like that contributes a little. But the real issue is that Tech companies have implimented LLMs literally everywhere in their workflows and data and services and this is taking up a ridiculous amount of computational power. These enterprise level implementations and speculative integrations (ie. adding AI somewhere that a corpo things will help but literally no one asked for it), is whats driving the biggest rise.
this is just a waste of resources. no one needs freaking AI. its crap bullshit. people need WATER stop being evil Microsoft!
That's a great way to create eco terrorists.
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Ha! Joke's on them ... I've not taken a shower since June!
I'm doing my part!
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Where are the "Mah Freedumb" guys when told to take shorter showers? Is this ok because Daddy said so?
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