Oh that's funny. I've been repeatedly told that AI is in fact negligible it comes to water usage.

Is it possible we were lied to, again? 🤣

If it needs to be fresh water, then they need to pay in full to build a desal plant for ocean water, and a solar farm to power it, to be owned and operated by the state. And, that plant needs to send half it's water to the local municipal water system at no cost.

Because fuck em.

Techbros got a bit too excited with Moore's law: they want everything they touch to grow exponentially. Specially money.

Can someone explain to me why this needs to be potable water?

Let's just skip to the end where we live on Rainworld after all the water has been evaporated into atmo

Is this evaporative cooling? Why cant they use it in closed loop?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residential_water_use_in_the_U.S._and_Canada

Edit: I guess the first link I put had some shitty info/estimates, my bad. Swapped it for a wiki article.

Isn't it hard not to be a doom person? Like... All the things I was taught in school about the environment are being trampled. Conserve water, reduce reuse recycle, we have finite water, conserve energy, reduce heat, reduce emissions.... And everyone is just steam rolling everything.

I don’t get it. They’re using water to cool data centers, right? But they’re surely not evaporating it? Water cooling systems use water in a closed loop that carries heat from the hot stuff to heat exchangers where the heat is given off to air. Or at worst, water is sucked in from a body of water cold, heated up, and released to the body of water again.

So where does the water go?

Enough water to get bill drowned