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We ran out of drinking water because we needed to cool down the machines generating 4K AI fruit videos
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Part of it I think is that we can technically live without electricity. We cannot do the same with water.
That is missing my point that they are not major contributors to water overuse. The other uses wildly dwarf them, especially animal agriculture
On electricity, they are delaying fossil fuel plant closures and run backup generators that emit themselves. They're projected to go from 5 to 15% of electricity use in the US
electricity can be converted to clean water, and it's at a slightly better rate than some of the non evaporatively cooled datacenters get