@feditips Heads up, a lot of the work suggesting these outlandish water usage stats have since been debunked as overblown. Here's an article (https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.05149) that discusses some issues in methodology and goes further to point out that a significant portion of the ecosystem still has hardly been optimized. I understand criticisms about inhuman accessibility mechanisms and the potential for error/alienation, but I'm not sure we should be discouraging it on the basis of climate.