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Coach Pāṇini ® (paninid@mastodon.world)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 22:30:44 JST Coach Pāṇini ®

The #InformationWars precede the #WaterWars.
https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/112399989793545485
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  Gerry McGovern (@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green)
  
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  Big Tech is coming for our water. It's only the beginning. Big Tech will become more and more voracious and devouring. During a global freshwater crisis, with droughts in multiple places, the greedy data centers and AI are demanding cheap water, and also demanding that citizens not be told how much water they're using.
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  Metafrastis (dgavin@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 16:57:06 JST Metafrastis
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  @paninid @aral @gerrymcgovern About a million times more water is lost by leaky water pipes. A few data centres don’t really add up, if you look at the numbers…
  
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  Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 16:57:06 JST Aral Balkan
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  @dgavin @paninid @gerrymcgovern How about we fix leaky pipes AND stop wasting water on AI? We can do two things at once. One doesn’t stop the other also being a problem.
  
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  Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 17:35:12 JST Aral Balkan
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  @dgavin @paninid @gerrymcgovern That’s the thing, though, it’s not crumbs, it’s significant: https://theconversation.com/ais-excessive-water-consumption-threatens-to-drown-out-its-environmental-contributions-225854
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    AI’s excessive water consumption threatens to drown out its environmental contributions
    
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    Artificial intelligence promises revolutionary solutions to global challenges, but the water costs to produce and power AI hardware and infrastructure may exceed the benefits.
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  Metafrastis (dgavin@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 17:35:13 JST Metafrastis
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  @aral @paninid @gerrymcgovern Of course, but our energy would be better used first fixing the real problems and then going after the crumbles 🙂
  
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  Gerry McGovern (gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 21:38:43 JST Gerry McGovern
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  In 2024, China Water Risk estimated that China's data centers would use about 1.3 trillion liters of water annually, which is sufficient for 26 million people's residential needs. The amount would surpass 3 trillion liters a year by 2030.
  That's a lot of water, and data center water use is growing exponentially.
  https://www.techtimes.com/articles/303669/20240417/ai-data-centers-strain-chinas-water-supply-claims-new-study.htm
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