return2ozmaHeatwave is no joke...
SlopppyEngineerSame with water usage. Everybody has to reduce water, not wash cars while industry and agriculture who use like ¾ of the water don’t do anything
Yes because washing cars is much less important than growing food
Juts search for “AI water consumption” or “data center water consumption”. I’ll agree that “we could be using this to wash our cars” is a silly argument, but water shortages affect between 2 and 3 billion people every year (unesco.org/…/imminent-risk-global-water-crisis-wa…). We could be doing more with this water than cloud computing and AI.
Imminent risk of a global water crisis, warns the UN World Water Development Report 2023
Between two and three billion people worldwide experience water shortages. These shortages will worsen in the coming decades, especially in cities, if international cooperation in this area is not boosted, warn UNESCO and UN-Water in the latest edition of the UN World Water Development Report.
nullRight, so agricultural was a bad example.
Not really. Look at California agriculture. You’ve got immense and unsustainable amounts of water going to almonds, pistachios, and other cash crops (not to mention animal feed for the Saudis) with voracious demand for more water, despite it causing damage to the water sources.
If you can’t imagine a world without eating meat, yes.
The big problem crop for water in California is almonds. The big problem crop for water in Australia is cotton. The big problem crop for water anywhere is not beef