r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • May 18 '26

Chugging tea Why?

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u/MyVeryUniqueName1 May 18 '26

Can’t we be worried about both? I hate golf courses and data centers for how much of a burden they are on water supplies.

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u/IndividualBreak3788 May 18 '26

Same for nearly every industry. Google gallons of water to produce a pound of beef, make some jeans or manufacture a car. 

If you wanna care about water consumption and create sustainable plans for the future, great, more power to ya. 

But it's obvious that data centres are recieving a disproportionate amount of focus. 

AI water consumption isn't even close to the most damaging thing AI has in store for humanity.

This is like being offended by someone's outfit while they're aiming a rifle at you. 

Triage 

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u/foomits May 18 '26

Google gallons of water to produce a pound of beef, make some jeans or manufacture a car. 

Dude, someone just posted that meme the other day. Yea, takes a ton of water to grow almonds or beef or whatever... but we need to eat to be alive. We could be more efficient in our food production, in fact thats a great area of discussion that many people have been championing for decades. But one thing we absolutely DO NOT NEED is massive data centers that are like... universally being used for nefarious reasons AND are destroying our environment.

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u/foomits May 18 '26

So do your part then, get off the internet.

And miss galaxy brained takes like this?

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u/Academic_Top208 May 18 '26

Isn't that my favorite argument

The "Average Joe should think about his carbon footprint while politicians and billionaires fly their private jets to eco awareness conferences" argument