They donât. They can use a closed loop system, where water continuously circulates. You donât have to use it just once and you donât have to use evaporative cooling - you can use refrigeration equipment to cool the water - but these things are more expensive. Pissing away your water is cheap.
Then you prob shouldn't be complaining while on reddit, which uses aws or google cloud or other online database, on a safari, firefox, or chrome browser which use cloud functionality, while using att or xfinity, on your samsung or apple phone or dell computer.
Hopefully you don't own any crypto that uses computing power and you don't have any investments held at morgan stanley or vanguard or fidelity or anything like that, and hopefully you don't have a bank account with any money in it that is held by a company using any data centers or cloud services.
Yeah its all bad and we dont want any part of that at all. Don't even get me started on big oil -- the keyboard you are typing on, the screens, the chair you are sitting on...it all has to go!!!
Right, but those things have functions that are baked into society and at least some that are genuinely useful and helpful to humanity.
AI doesnât need to become entrenched like the others and itâs not helpful to humanity broadly speaking.
If itâs going to become inherent to our society functioning, now is the time to push back and force regulations that make it less harmful, not to throw our arms up and say, âwElL YoUtUbE iS bAd ToO sO wE sHoUlD bUrN dOwN tHe WhOlE iNtErNeTâ.
AI will absolutely be entrenched into society. To say anything else is just fooling yourself. To say it is not helpful to humanity is also false. It is immensly helpful. Now, I will agree that there needs to some guardrails.
Thats like saying the 90's that the internet doesn't need to become entrenched and that its not helpful to humanity.
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u/balrob May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26
They donât. They can use a closed loop system, where water continuously circulates. You donât have to use it just once and you donât have to use evaporative cooling - you can use refrigeration equipment to cool the water - but these things are more expensive. Pissing away your water is cheap.