It varies pretty greatly, but our golf course uses untreated water from a relatively dirty river that is not used for drinking. It looks like Google is using ground water from the aquifer. These are significantly different beasts.
replyConcern about water use is the distraction they caused in the media so we'd too busy thinking about fake issues to think about the real issues.
replyNot a conspiracy theorist, but wait that really sounds effective. Just few months back I was wondering why were big datacenter companies not trying to sway the public that the water usage is low per query or whatever metric.
replyThere will be protests and cases related to water usage of AI, but none of them would hold any ground. And winning the water case would just make the argument in their favour.
Which begs the question of who was the source of the water/electricity FUD?
replyYou don’t have to create unrest, sometimes you just have to let it go unchecked in the right spots.
replyFlood the zone.
reply> Just few months back
Just a few months more, and the public was still often making Epstein references.
Excess water use is actively harming people right now.
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