I’ve noticed an uptick in the number of pro-AI posts on this platform.
Various posts with titles similar to “When will people stop being afraid of AI” or “Can we please acknowledge AI was very needed for X”
Can’t tell if its the propaganda machine invading, or annoying teenage tech-bros who are detached from reality.
Didn’t know my PC used water? Thanks for teaching me something.
How do you imagine your “local” AI was trained? Let me tell you, in a massive datacenter that used gallons of water.
Running AI is a smaller problem. A ton of power and resources go into training them.
Not to mention all the stolen work they are trained on.
So this water that gets used, what happens to it? Does it vaporized into elementary particles, or… ?
I’ve worked with data centers and super computers. They do use a lot of water! But is used for cooling. It runs through a pipe, absorbs some heat, and then gets pushed back into the original water source. That or it is put into a closed loop system which only keeps the water trapped for the lifetime of the project, and is then recycled back into circulation.
Their concerns about drinking water are exaggerated, but technically your computer does use water if go far enough back. But once you do that, everything that uses electricity also uses water.
It’s not nearly as much water as using ethanol gas.