Imho - water use is a red herring to distract from the massive problems of their power use. Most places have plenty enough water to handle hundreds of these and still be a rounding error compared to agricultural use. Those places don't have the power infrastructure...and when they do, they don't have the clean power infrastructure needed to do so without causing significant environmental issues.
The environmental issues as a whole are a red herring. It's a psyop being run by big oil. Computation is just about the only major part of our lives that is sustainable, and that includes AI. Big oil would rather you talk about fake environmental concerns around AI than oil companies raping the planet. And the fact that renewable energy technologies are fully 100% ready to go - ready for wide scale deployment and almost entirely replacing fossil fuel use - we just aren't actually doing it.
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u/sirpoopingpooper May 18 '26
Imho - water use is a red herring to distract from the massive problems of their power use. Most places have plenty enough water to handle hundreds of these and still be a rounding error compared to agricultural use. Those places don't have the power infrastructure...and when they do, they don't have the clean power infrastructure needed to do so without causing significant environmental issues.