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> That said stories about data center water use are a distraction from much bigger water consumers That's something of a fallacy of relative privation. When wa
by teeray 1y ago
> That said stories about data center water use are a distraction from much bigger water consumers
That's something of a fallacy of relative privation. When water is scarce, all frivolous uses should be under scrutiny. The others you mention have been well-known for a long time. The current stories simply highlight a new consumer people haven't thought of before.
- wahnfrieden 1y agoAlso - Will data center water usage remain "negligible" if AI succeeds at wide adoption and scales to 100x current deployment? If 100x current usage levels become a concern, I don't know why people pretend that current usage is not a concern for a tech that many of those same people are projecting to scale.
- neoromantique 1y ago>Also - Will data center water usage remain "negligible" if AI succeeds at wide adoption and scales to 100x current deployment? Yes.
- Romario77 1y agoI don't think it's a fallacy, it's much easier to optimize water usage for something that much larger. Agriculture uses about 70% of all freshwater while datacenters are less than 0.5% Some leaky channel will cost more than all the datacenters.