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Not just water, but also resources: electricity, RAM and Flash memory, other things being over-consumed by the AI development explosion. This war doesn't have geographic or national boundaries, its the (heavily funded) AI companies vs everyone else.

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[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Don't shame them, let them fly their flags proudly - makes 'em easier to spot.

Now, I'll agree that datacenters don't have to use water at all (but they do, to save money), and I'll agree that their water use is overblown in many cases, but that's no comfort at all when it hits your community:

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/08/georgia-data-centers-water-00909988

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2193937991360483

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuMuxbrIwxc

Water availability and quality is one thing that gets people to wake up and take action: war.

[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/08/georgia-data-centers-water-00909988

A data center drained 30M gallons of water

It's never percentages. It's always the big flashy numbers in these articles.

[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If the datacenter usage is a rounding error compared to agriculture then efficiency of agriculture is the actual problem. Not the data center usage

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The efficiency of agricultural use of water has been an actual problem since forever. Knew a guy who ran a Tilapia farm outside of San Antonio, TX - secured all the legal water rights, was encouraged by the Dept. of Agriculture to develop the project with all kinds of tax breaks, ran successfully for a few years then a drought came and the city of San Antonio realized this guy's fish farm was using more water from their aquifer than the whole city. They bought him out / shut it down imminent domain style...