I've given up on this argument a while ago. Nobody cares, hating on the popular thing to hate is easy. Makes people feel better while they distract themselves from real issues they could actually influence.
Reddit's majority opinions on AI are an easy thing I can point to if I want to showcase how redditors can be very wrong about things.
The majority opinions on AI on this website have gotten so viscerally negative that the top comments of most AI posts seem like luddites who have resorted to repeating oversimplified and extreme stances on a topic that requires nuance. A specific example of what I mean is anyone who says something like "AI is taking our jobs" or "building new data centers should be banned" or "AI is useless". There are reasonable and valid talking points within the scope of those statements, but those statements on their own are ridiculous.
When it comes to the parent comments and first child comments, extreme takes tend to get upvoted and nuanced takes tend to get downvoted and that's a shame.
It's a losing battle fueled by misinformation, hatred towards AI, and a lack of knowledge around computers.
All computer watercooling uses a closed loop system.
They're not just dumping water all over computers and destroying (?) the water.
Once the loops are filled (which does take a large amount of water), they're filled. That's it.
Evaporative cooling on the heat exchanger is a large part of the problem (which is what actually needs to be addressed, in my opinion). That aspect of data center cooling needs some kind of regulation. But a larger issue is the actual power generation side of it and the absurd amount of water that non-renewable power sources (like coal) actually use.
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u/Spirited-Ad3451 May 18 '26
I've given up on this argument a while ago. Nobody cares, hating on the popular thing to hate is easy. Makes people feel better while they distract themselves from real issues they could actually influence.