Please stop, you maniacs.
this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2025
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All this energy wasted on products most people don't even want but big CEOs think it'll earn them loads of money so fuck the planet I guess.
why measure against bottled water? that can't possibly be a big percentage of the water people drink.
The bottled water market globally is rapidly growing with approximately 550 million households consuming bottled water in 2024. That's more than 446 Billion litres of water per year or 1 million bottles per minute.
https://tappwater.co/blogs/blog/how-many-people-consume-bottled-water-globally
1 million bottles per minute
Let that sink in
I wish that AI keeps using more water than human use bottle water. But for a reason that the latter goes down.
so that's... seven percent?
shocking that nobody tries to ban this
Bottled water is easy to quantify
smh should have used football fields
While I agree it is an odd metric with a misleading phrasing, at this point all people using this shit should have their electronic devices locked away and online time rationed. Fucking selfish twats.
Capitalism was the paperclip maximizer all along?
Crypto mining is still a thing? Capitalism is truly the best at efficient use of resources.
Hey Gemini, show me an efficiency curve based on infinite resources.
H20?
I'm not sure how you'd bond twenty hydrogen atoms together, but that sounds... particularly explosive.
Meh, just a really light calcium atom
Yo guys this pot is really boiling, and I don't think we can leave the pot 🐸
Makes me wonder how emmet brown would feel about this.
Now we’re really cooking 🧑🍳
tf is H 20?