Comment on When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket

Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• portifornia@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  But it’s not a drop in the bucket… They try to claim it is, by comparing their usage from 2-4 years ago, which has exponentially increased over the last 18 months, to national or global usage, but they completely gloss over;

  A single Meta data center in Newton County, Georgia, for instance, now uses about 10 percent of the entire county’s water supply

  This is a shit article, from what’s clear to be a shit author Kyle Orland, Ars’ Senior Gaming Editor.

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  • Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This is a shit article, from what’s clear to be a shit author Kyle Orland, Ars’ Senior Gaming Editor.

    Yea agreed - though it does make an important point (in perhaps the opposite way it should have been made). Local water use is being impacted greatly - it may not lead to us having no water nationally, but its absolutely leading local communities to struggle to get people water.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      it may not lead to us having no water nationally,

      Water is distributed at the local level in the US, so this is just a made up metric that will never be met.

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• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I mean it kinda is but you’re right that any increases are pretty inconveniently timed.

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