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The AI water issue is fake - Andy Masleyandymasley.substack.com/p/the-ai-water-issue-is-fake
478 sats \ 5 comments \ @Scoresby 16h AI
Only 0.04% of America’s freshwater in 2023 was consumed inside data centers themselves. This is 3% of the water consumed by the American golf industry.
Or, predicting things out a little:
So in 2030, AI in data centers specifically will be using 0.08% of America’s freshwater. This means it will rise to the level of 5% of America’s current water used on golf courses, or 5% of U.S. steel production, or be about 173 square miles of corn farms.
The article is quite lengthy -- almost to the point if feeling like apologetics, but overall, I think it is a more sane take on AI water usage than most of the critiques.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @CruncherDefi 4h
What does it mean that 'water is consumed'? Is it getting vented into space? Or do they use fusion reactor for AI that converts water particles into other particles?
Water cycles in the ecosystem. And its okay. When water evaporates in the process of cooling it goes back into ecosystem.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @adlai 7h
how about avoiding the word "fake"?
outside of forensic study of artefacts and blatantly false news stories, it is often an oversimplification; e.g., in this case, the "sane take" is that the concern is disproportionate, which is completely different from what simpleminded folks might interpret from the clickbait headline.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby OP 6h
Fair: would you change the title from the article you are linking to?
I generally try to keep link titles the same as the source (unless it's just too long for the character limit).
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @adlai 5h
In this case, I'd probably name the SN post something different than the article, especially considering that the entire original title fits within the link and would thus still be visible in the resulting page.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nerd2ninja 15h
Hahaha we know. They made this up to FUD Bitcoin mining so people started launching it at AI because "the economy" or whatever likes AI and now business execs and politicians have to fight our FUD for us lmao
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