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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

AI Will Consume as Much Water as a Billion People By 2030, UN Report Estimates

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AI Will Consume as Much Water as a Billion People By 2030, UN Report Estimates

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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 2 months ago
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The water footprint of AI data centers by 2030 will equal the water needs of 1.3 billion people, the UN report found.
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    Not in my building. We use closed-loop, RO, continuously filtered, deionized water. Like all of the others my company runs.

    Whats your source?

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      Most recently, the EESI, but The Guardian started reporting on it last year.

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        According to those articles, the water-cooled systems don’t uses pfas.

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        Did you read your sources? They talk about fire suppression and manufacturing, not cooling.

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      Good comment for asking for source. Also good on them for delivering.

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        Also glad the source didn’t support the claim

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          Glad someone actually read those sources since I clearly didn’t 😂👌

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