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   ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 13:28:37 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

   • Chandler Carruth

   @chandlerc basically:
   - to the extent AI datacenters come to exist, they are not clearly worse than existing cloud datacenters
   - to the extent AI power use happens, it is not clearly worse to cool it with evaporation than with other methods and in fact it seems that it may be significantly better in places where you are not water-constrained
   - even the most optimistic projections of AI expansion involve water use figures that are quite small compared to general industrial or ag water use

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 13:29:37 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Chandler Carruth

     @chandlerc I think it is unquestionable and immediately obvious that power use is already bad and will get worse if only by asking any grid operator whether they are ready for this

     the same does not appear to be the case for water use, and I think it strains credibility to keep using it with no further clarification as a catchy anti-AI slogan