Is there anyway to make it use less at it gets more advanced or will there be huge power plants just dedicated to AI all over the world soon?

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    24 hours ago

    Also water, they consume heaps of fresh water which is used for important meat bag things like, oh I don’t know, eating and drinking perhaps.

    No one is really challenging them on this, but water scarcity is going to be a big deal as climate change worsens.

    Cook the planet and take all the water.

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      23 hours ago

      Isn’t water mainly used for cooling? I think you can still drink that water, unless they pump it full of chemicals.

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        22 hours ago

        the current cooling paradigm is to basically spray mist into the air inlets of a data center to make the air able to carry more heat. the hot, moist air is then vented to atmosphere. so the water is lost until it rains again.