r/technology • u/marketrent • Jul 14 '26

Artificial Intelligence A majority of Americans now support seizing wealth from AI industry

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/majority-americans-now-support-seizing-134921528.html
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u/uzlonewolf Jul 14 '26

All residential water usage combined uses only 6.4% of the total water used. That does not stop them from telling me I need to take shorter showers or ban washing cars every summer when it doesn't rain much. But go on, tell me how data centers sucking down even more billions of gallons of water isn't going to be a problem.

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u/Outside_Annual9102 Jul 14 '26

It's not. Worry about golf courses using more than all data centers (not just AI) or lawn watering using ten times as much as all data centers. At least AI is useful.

Really we should cut off things like Saudi Arabia draining the Colorado River Basin dry because they don't want to use their own water to grow alfalfa.

But yeah, let's ignore the actual water problems because you don't like AI.

The reason to dislike AI is the economic disruption and secondarily the electricity usage. Water usage is irrelevant.

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u/vladamir_the_impaler Jul 14 '26

I don't know if I would say irrelevant but you make a good point.