How much of a resource hog is AI?

Study: https://www.cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S2666-3899(25)00278-8

Edit: Changed the "H20" to "H₂O" in the title.

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[–] 24 points 10 months ago

Please stop, you maniacs.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago

    All this energy wasted on products most people don't even want but big CEOs think it'll earn them loads of money so fuck the planet I guess.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    why measure against bottled water? that can't possibly be a big percentage of the water people drink.

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  • [–] [S] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    The bottled water market globally is rapidly growing with approximately 550 million households consuming bottled water in 2024. That's more than 446 Billion litres of water per year or 1 million bottles per minute.

    https://tappwater.co/blogs/blog/how-many-people-consume-bottled-water-globally

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Crypto mining is still a thing? Capitalism is truly the best at efficient use of resources.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Yo guys this pot is really boiling, and I don't think we can leave the pot 🐸

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Makes me wonder how emmet brown would feel about this.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago*

    H20?

    I'm not sure how you'd bond twenty hydrogen atoms together, but that sounds... particularly explosive.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Now we’re really cooking 🧑‍🍳

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    tf is H 20?

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