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AI Data Centers’ Water Consumption Breaks 264 Billion Gallons in 2025 as Devastating Drought Hits Nearly 63% of U.S.

https://www.barchart.com/story/news/2339834/ai-data-centers-water-consumption-breaks-264-billion-gallons-in-2025-as-devastating-drought-hits-nearly-63-of-u-s

> Americans across multiple states are being urged to conserve water as drought conditions intensify, reservoirs shrink, and utilities issue increasingly urgent warnings. At the same time, a different kind of consumer is quietly demanding unprecedented amounts of water: artificial intelligence.

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Let me translate the United Nations article regarding AI for you which "calls for urgent action to ensure that the technology develops within planetary limits".

Urgent = act now.

Planetary limits = you cannot exceed them.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/06/1167658

AI’s environmental costs threaten water, land and climate

Artificial Intelligence is not only responsible for worrying amounts of earth-warming greenhouse gases: the technology's environmental footprint is also expanding at a pace that could strain the planet’s natural resources.

UN News
The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy - Include Security Research Blog

In this post we look under the hood of BrightData's SDK and how it turns ordinary consumer TVs into exit nodes of an enormous commercial, residential proxy network leveraged by the AI industry to scrape web data and train language learning models.

Include Security Research Blog

Welcome to the future

https://suppo.fi/post/12620794

The AI vibe shift is real: Why the backlash is growing - https://mashable.com/tech/ai-backlash-vibe-shift excellent summary of #ai's current and growing problems...
The AI vibe shift is real: Why the backlash is growing

As 'tokenmaxxing' dies out, Silicon Valley is having second thoughts.

Mashable