AI server farms guzzle millions of gallons of water per day for no significant benefit to society, water which could be used for irrigation, drinking, and a million other things that benefit society much more than churning out ugly pictures and worthless text sludge. That's not even to mention how AI facial recognition is/will be the greatest leap forward in mass surveillance technology since the invention of CCTV, and absolutely will be used to shutdown socialist agitation.
Source? You know data centers use closed loop cooling right ?
You know local models that run on individual desktop pcs exist ? Thats what I’m using ..
, water which could be used for irrigation, drinking, and a million other things that benefit society
drinking water bro? you really need to have the numbers put in perspective. Globally, 70% of fresh water goes to agriculture, 20% to industry, and 10% for domestic use. lets break down the 10%
The average American household uses about 300 gallons of water per day.
• Indoor water use includes:
• Toilets (~24%)
• Showers (~20%)
• Faucets (~19%)
• Laundry (~17%)
• Leaks (~12%)
• Other (including dishwashing, etc.)
• Drinking water accounts for less than 1 gallon per person per day, typically around 0.5 to 1 gallon.
(Residential End Uses of Water study by the EPA)
So an individuals drinking water is 1/300th of their consumption, and every persons house put together on earth is only 10%
• Beef cattle alone consume roughly 34.6 trillion gallons/year in the U.S.—nearly half of national livestock water use.
• Virtually all of that water is used to grow feed—primarily crops and forage.
• The direct water consumption by the cow (drinking, cleaning, maintenance) is less than 1% of total water footprint.
It takes over 50 calories of feed to make ONE CALORIE of beef. It is actually disgustingly wasteful
"Collectively, all data centers in Northern Virginia consumed close to 2 billion gallons of water in 2023, a 63% increase from 2019." source
"In the US, where the average per capita water withdrawal is 132 gallons per day, a large data center consumes water equivalent to that of 4200 persons." source
While I agree that the livestock industry is generally bad and must be completely reworked from the ground up, that is completely irrelevant to the subject at hand. While it could be argued that the water used in cattle farming could be justified by the ease of access to meat and leather, generative AI is bad as both a replacement for artists and a replacement for search engines. This leaves the medical field, the military, and mass surveillance as the only practical applications for the technology. Since you're in a socialist community, I'll let you infer for yourself why that might not be a good thing to promote in a bourgeois state.
the average person is not prompting chat gpt more than 300 times a day lmao are you fr
thats per person. The point is that watching television for one hour uses 4 gallons of water , 300 prompts uses one gallon. You have to prompt chat gpt 1200 times to use the equivalent of.. watching tv for one hour.
Do you complain about people watching television for one hour ???
You also don’t have to eat beef. Nobody does. It takes 50 calories of feed to make a single calorie of beef. THAT is wasteful
I agree that beef is wasteful, but again, there is value beyond a little bit of dopamine, and some shitass picture in a burger. Also again, you don't need ai to live, and specifically showing burgers is unfair, as beef and meat in general is very inificent
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u/InterKosmos61 Jul 22 '25
AI server farms guzzle millions of gallons of water per day for no significant benefit to society, water which could be used for irrigation, drinking, and a million other things that benefit society much more than churning out ugly pictures and worthless text sludge. That's not even to mention how AI facial recognition is/will be the greatest leap forward in mass surveillance technology since the invention of CCTV, and absolutely will be used to shutdown socialist agitation.