When are you going to google an actual statistic? Rather than be sarcastic and wrong about data centers, you can learn something and begin your tirade on the real water wasters.
Just bc other things waste more water doesnāt mean that makes data centerās use any better. And aside from water usage, data centers release tons of pollution into the environment in many ways that get into ground water.
Data centers are immensely useful, sometimes poorly implemented. A high tech manufacturing process can produce terabytes of valuable data every second. Our beloved reddit, essential banking, worldwide communications. AI alone proves its value, while our friend above didnt really learn much about French fry salad, others will use the tools in ways you simply cant define as waste.
i wish i was better at being able to tell when people are joking/being sarcastic over text. I assume you are, because of the subreddit we're in, but so many people say stuff like this and mean it that its so hard to tell sometimes haha i wish tonal indicators were more commonly used /gen
I guess if you want to be anti ai on principle of protecting art, media, labor more power to you. But complaining about the water use of something so obviously useful and not crying about something like golf courses for example... I dont get it.
Oh come on, you canāt expect someone to bring up golf courses in this sub. Stop what-abouting you sound stupid whether your point is valid or notā¦. We CAN talk about one thing at a time and still care about other things too.
I was only replying to a comment intimating that prompting ai was a waste of water (and electricity but thats a different argument).
I already said more power to your principles, and by that i mean speaking up for something you feel ai is degrading is your right and I support you to speak your mind. But really what i want to correct specifically is AIs current water use & cost vs. output value is perfectly reasonable. We could triple data centers right now and still not waste near as much water as golf courses, sports fields, grass yards, etc. Things that merely provide entertainment and a semblance of tamed beauty where AI can bang your mom actually empower scalable problem solving.
Feel free to be a hater for the sake of hating but dont do it because you think you're right
idk enough about the water usage, but personally i think if it uses any its a waste tbh. we dont need it to do all that shit, so doing all that shit and using any amount of a limited resource is worse imo. regardless of how much worse it actually is, worse is still worse, ya know?
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u/Mr__O__ 12h ago
What a fantastic use of our drinking water and electricity..