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Yes ai use consumes water and it’s unnecessary for us to use ai therefore don’t use it. HOWEVER we should also recognize other things we do that use a lot of water such as scrolling on social media or eating meat
11 upvotes, 24 comments. Sidechat image post by Anonymous in Girl Talk. "Yes ai use consumes water and it’s unnecessary for us to use ai therefore don’t use it. HOWEVER we should also recognize other things we do that use a lot of water such as scrolling on social media or eating meat"
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Anonymous 14w

The huge data centers being built still pollute the surrounding areas, and most are being allowed variances from EPA standards to contaminate beyond what is normally acceptable

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Anonymous 14w

I’m with op, you guys can’t recognize that she’s on YOUR SIDE, there’s just other activities that use even more water and pollute 😭😭🤦🏽‍♀️

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Anonymous 14w

Given the current daily number of queries is 2.5 billion, the daily water used by ChatGPT according to your graph is 8333333.33 repeating.

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Anonymous 14w

as an electronics engineer, this isn’t really how this works. the water cooling systems are running constantly no matter how many queries there are in any given time, unlike the way you can equate x number of cows to x number of beef patties; it is the level of demand for the product that is causing overall detrimental impact and causing new facilities to open, whether your specific query is using them or not. while both are not ideal for the environment, it’s not a 1:1 comparison.

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Anonymous 14w

Respectfully both you are arguing dishonestly and I’m not engaging anymore. My point has been clear from the start that we should recognize the negative affects of all these things

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 14w

Yes and data centers are not just used for AI, social media platforms uses them too among other things

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 14w

That doesn’t minimize their effects. Data centers are bad for everyone except the company that bought the land

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 14w

I agree.. data centers are bad but also the water consumption in the meat industry is also bad. You agree?

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 14w

I’m just pointing out that data centers are used for more than ai, streaming services rely on them a social media platforms do as well. We should be cognizant of that.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 14w

A bottle of beer and a cup of coffee are also worst than using chat gpt, even a gallon of almond milk can be worse than a hamburger in terms of water consumption. But daily, does chat gpt only take 300 inquiries? Are people usually eating a hamburger daily?

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 14w

Ofc people eat less burger than they search on ChatGPT. Thats where the 1 gallon vs 660 gallons comes into play. Why can’t we recognize that both these behaviors carry harm?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 14w

Every behavior carries harm. You didn’t even care to recognize the other stuff I had. But if “one hamburger” has so much water then let’s hope daily that under 198,000 inquiries are made daily.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 14w

It’s not just hamburgers it’s the entire meat industry. The graph just compares hamburger for simplicity. And dairy milk still uses more water than almond milk, but yes I recognize that both use water(all crops use water)

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 14w

Meat will always use more water bc it takes water to produce the feed fed to the animals

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 14w

Also the whole argument about cow’s milk being less “sustainable” than plant milk is in bad faith because it’s clear that a majority of the water is used to water the cow herself, not the production milk like almond or rice.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 14w

The water used to feed the cow ofc should be factored in whattt??? And this graph only factors in hamburgers not the rest of the meat industry. And you fail to recognize the social media and streaming services that use data centers

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 14w

Lmao posts upvoted and comments downvoted is interesting

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 14w

Except your argument isn’t about streaming services, it’s about ChatGPT queries. Don’t try and make a different point now that someone did the math. The way you slapped the graph of water consumption by milk type out of context shows that you just want people to blindly believe what your posting and not do any research or critical thinking of their own just agree with you.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 14w

That has been my argument babe

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 14w

It also doesn’t take into account things like how much milk is produced using that amount of water or how many hamburgers come from one cow. Your argument is flawed from start to finish and I’m not gonna sit here and blindly agree because you threw some graphs around.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 14w

I understand that I’ve upset some people by pointing out how their environmentalism is imperfect, but please do not misrepresent my argument. It has always been about ai, social media, steaming, AND the meat industry.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 14w

It’s literally per liter of milk, it is factored in😭

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 14w

Expect that was not the math I did, I did the math for ChatGPT queries. I focused on two of the arguments because that the data I have. Even if it is part of the argument it still doesn’t change the fact that you’re using out of context graphs in your arguments.

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Anonymous 14w

Thank you😭

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