A retail data center uses 6 million gallons of water a year, about the same as a golf course. A hyperscale data center, the type that runs AWS or GCP uses 200+ million gallons a year. An “AI” data center uses an order of magnitude more. Those numbers are all on the low range. The higher estimates are 1.8 BILLION gallons annually.

Those are just direct water usage. Water is also used to cool the power plants supplying the power to these data centers. Even if they use new forms of cooling, like closed loop systems, those systems trade the water usage on site for energy usage. That increased energy usage uses more water at the power plants.

This water isn’t reused, like on golf courses, it’s not collected and recycled. It’s pulled from aquifers and rivers and evaporated straight into the sky. It’s not only destroying the downstream environments, but it’s destroying underground aquifers that humans survive on.

There is literally no way to look at AI data centers and claim they are good for the environment. And if you come in and claim that agriculture uses more, you’re just an idiotic troll. Food keeps us alive, LLMs do not.

According to scientists at the University of California, Riverside, each 100-word AI prompt is estimated to use roughly one bottle of water (or 519 milliliters).

https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/data-centers-and-water-consumption

They know. People aren’t that dumb.

Little Jedi’s what is on board?

He regularly listens to podcasts on public transport without headphones, for this reason, but also because he thinks ‘headphones can be quite insular’ and ‘isolating’, preventing you from striking up random conversations with fellow passengers about what you’re listening to.

Nobody wants to start a conversation with you because they already know you’re inconsiderate.

‘I think people expect a certain level of noise on public transport,’ he continues.

They do not expect to listen to your shitty podcast or YouTube video, and if they did they would be inconsiderate too.

‘If people ever raise any concerns or issues, then I would respond respectfully and politely,’ he adds.

X to doubt.

they're also not equivalent because LLMs pretense is to remove the human from the equation, essentially saying that we don't need that knowledge anymore. But people still do have that knowledge. Those telephone systems still work because someone knows how each part works. That will never be true for an LLM.

Why would you reveal this with a video? Like…this is literally free money for the taking.

Startup founder that has no seed (venture capital) money yet, e.g. they haven’t gone through a funding round yet. They’re funding the startup with their own money to start off.

Just to be clear, the US heavily subsidizes the auto industry as well, it’s just that because we’ve bailed them out so many times the auto industry hasn’t cared to innovate in decades.

Someone recreate this without AI please

The fcc has no authority over YouTube TV since it’s not broadcast. Doesn’t really matter what the FCC wants until Congress explicitly adds the power for them to control non-broadcast media. And oh boy will that not be good.

The lynx was part of a program to make them not endangered anymore, so releasing was always part of the plan. This is the case with many zoos.

This has nothing to do with being a walled platform. All these maintainers of all these lemmy servers would have to do the exact same thing if Nintendo came to them. And if they refused then Nintendo could go to the server host. And if that didn’t work you would end up in court. It has nothing to do with walled gardens and everything to do with Nintendo abusing dmca.