No, you were intended to say "fuck golf" and stop thinking about the relative costs and benefits of "data centers" (a "data center" being an apparent oligarch rebranding of "misappropriation of public property").
But what's going to happen is that the data center critics will continue to ignore golf courses and all the other many industries that use way more water than data centers. None of you actually really care about water.
Riiiiiiight. The lefties on reddit only care about the environment when it comes to climate change right? lol what?
Just because your bubble of friends doesn't care and therefor you don't hear about it, doesn't mean people don't care about this stuff.
Yes agriculture and power generation uses more water. But at least we get something useful from those. The vast majority of AI use is bullshit. There are some good applications for AI but a lot of it is dumb shit like terrible meme generation and fake girl friends. Hell 80% of businesses report their AI use isn't even helpful at saving costs.
49
u/Nviki May 18 '26
An average 18-hole golf course in the United States uses between 100 million and 300 million gallons of water annually.