Anonymous #1 2d

I think some mfs actually think AI just drinks water and makes it disappear 💀

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Anonymous #1 2d

Don’t forget full of contaminants and metals that makes the lakes and streams completely inhospitable to life

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Anonymous #2 2d

This is the first I’ve heard about metals. Can you explain?

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Anonymous OP 2d

You’ll get trace amounts of copper and zinc leaking into the water stream via erosion of the cooling pipes and equipment.

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Anonymous #1 2d

That doesn’t sound specific to AI at all

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Anonymous OP 2d

AI runs off data centers, same as any other internet infrastructure. The thing about AI data centers specifically is they’re built on a much larger scale than previously seen and do use a much larger amount of water as well

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Anonymous OP 2d

It’s not, also happens with power plants and other data centers like #2 said.

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Anonymous #1 2d

That sounds like something that would happen from any consumption of water, or whenever rain flows through man-made drainage

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Anonymous OP 2d

The metals part to an extent, but power plants and data centers also cycle through a lot of heat which can disrupt the ecosystem. They also put chlorine and phosphorus in cooling water to kill algae and bacteria, and prevent corrosion.

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Anonymous OP 2d

But yeah, most of those chemicals (and worse) still enter through drainage, not really sewage though. The biggest concern is the heat imo.

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Anonymous #2 2d

No, cloud artificial intelligence runs off data centers primarily, not “ai” itself. there is a flourishing open-source community dedicated to expanding on consumer-available local models (aka you install and run it on your own device) Additionally, if we’re worried about water consumption and availability of fresh water, we should be discussing the water requirements of maintaining our meat industry, as well as the common exploitation companies like Nestle engage in towards entire towns

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Anonymous #3 2d

However, cloud based ai is absolutely terrible given the vocal goals of the owners of these companies. To my extreme surprise, Anthropic is the ONLY us-based ai company that attempted to fight against the pentagon weaponizing its model, the other companies willfully gave access with glee. (and this is the company owned by that bezos scumbag, which is why I was so surprised tbh I was expecting them all to abide by the pentagon without pushback)

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Anonymous #3 2d

Localized AI = good and important, cloud-based AI is devastatingly dangerous given its increased capabilities and the malicious intentions of the technofascists owning the companies

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