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> My point was that google generates hundreds of billions of dollars from the same water that $34 million in alfalfa Food is more important than whatever google does. :/
Radical Luddite posting on the internet is … something.
I would love to hear why you think food is not actually more important than data centers.
How much water AI data centers use feels like the least interesting reason to dislike them. If I wanted to dislike them for environmental reasons, then I’d focus entirely on the energy consumption and CO2 emission from the generators directly hooked up to the data centers since the grid can’t provide them with enough juice. If I wanted to dislike them for economic reasons, I’d focus entirely on the weird circular dea…
> It’s by far not the biggest problem! Yeah, you're right. Some parts of the world is running out of fresh/clean water. We can drink coke instead.
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> It’s by far not the biggest problem! Yeah, you're right. Some parts of the world is running out of fresh/clean water. We can drink coke instead.
The water isn’t destroyed, though, is it? It evaporates, right? So it isn’t lost?
It becomes unusable for consumption and farming. It becomes waste.
Closed loop systems and ordinary humidifying doesn’t and can’t “use” that amount of water.
Why can it not be ealtwater for cooling?
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How is everything else a distraction? We are overusing our water budget so every little piece on top is extra impactful.
I don’t really know how to rephrase it. It’s a distraction. This article could have been about shipping alfalfa to the Middle East and Asia, but instead it was about this.
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How is everything else a distraction? We are overusing our water budget so every little piece on top is extra impactful.
Agriculture uses orders of magnitudes more water than data centers. A 50% cut in water use by data centers will have nowhere near the impact of a 5% cut in water use by agriculture. But data centers can generate orders of magnitude more revenue. Say rain water is leaking into your house from two holes in the roof: one is 1 meter in diameter, the other is 1cm. Any effort you spend plugging the 1cm hole is a distractio…
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Agriculture uses orders of magnitudes more water than data centers. A 50% cut in water use by data centers will have nowhere near the impact of a 5% cut in water use by agriculture. But data centers can generate orders of magnitude more revenue. Say rain water is leaking into your house from two holes in the roof: one is 1 meter in diameter, the other is 1cm. Any effort you spend plugging the 1cm hole is a distractio…
That 1cm leak is going to lead to mold in my house so both need to be addressed.