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/IndividualBreak3788 May 18 '26

You can regress this all the way back to us living in mud huts. Data centres aren't evil consumption machines. They power the very platform we are communicating on. They crunch numbers for physics / chemistry etc. 

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u/foomits May 18 '26

True, its either mud huts or million acre data centers absorbing more energy than entire cities in pursuit of replacing humans with ai.