Anonymous #5 22w

oh my fucking god… we literally need our brains to have freshwater to live. we do not need generative AI nor data centers to live on this planet, quite the opposite actually! what a terrible response… equating our brains’ need for water to AI water consumption that destroys entire communities’ water supply in both the pressure and cleanliness of their tap water. so silly and wacky of you.

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Anonymous #4 22w

OP said “it costs nothing to use your brain”, to address you we don’t need pools to live, but they use up tons of precious freshwater, don’t see you bitchin about them. Ur prolly also pro nuclear power yea (I am)? well i have some bad news for you…

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Anonymous #2 22w

True. Meat uses up a lot of water, so do clothes, and other materials. It’s one reason people opt to be vegan or vegetarian. And just like that, people should understand the impact. It’s still their decision. I will still eat meat to an extent and I will use AI on occasion. But I’m aware that it has a huge impact and to not be reliant on it.

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Anonymous #5 22w

When I wrote that, I was thinking that everyone understood that we drink water to live. We don’t need to consume extra water, food, etc. in order to use our brains. Nothing extra is needed as we are intelligent beings capable of higher order thoughts. We don’t need to turn to AI to supplement our thoughts which is dependent on water and other resources. In some situations, it’s necessary.

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Anonymous #5 22w

pools hold a finite amount of water that is limited to someone’s income, land use, etc… meanwhile AI data centers are being built in places that destroy water supply and are completely lawless in their bulldozing of legal pathways. OpenAI & Oracle just sued a Michigan township for voting against their proposed data center, forcing the community into financial ruin facing a massive corporation. Now the data center is being built despite the people saying NO, bc they know what it means for them.

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Anonymous #4 22w

We both agree that data centers suck and it’s bull that they are being built all over against ppls wishes, I just think water is a crappy reason to be against them (bc it never destroys any water), a much better reason is power usage raising working class energy costs.

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Anonymous #5 22w

I fear you are not informed enough on what data centers do to water infrastructure, plumbing infrastructure, water supply constraints being redirected away from residential zones, total lack of legislation on their wastewater management & release, construction zoning based on watershed maps, etc. There is a looming cascade of water-related problems that data centers are fully ignoring or trampling, and the public hasn’t even fully understood most of it yet…

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Anonymous #2 22w

two things can be true at once. fuck the beef industry!! concentrated animal farming operations (CAFOs) destroy freshwater ecosystems and cause harmful algal blooms (HABs)!!!

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Anonymous #5 22w

The whole point of this post was to demonstrate the impact that an individual’s use of AI has. It’s so easy to ask ChatGPT for the answer to things nowadays and I’m someone who does it too. But to realize that it uses that much water just makes me think twice if it’s something I need AI for.

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