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Data centers consumed 264B gallons of water as drought hits nearly 63% of US (www.barchart.com)

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[–] nysqin@feddit.org 99 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

According to market research firm Mordor Intelligence, nearly 1 trillion liters of water were consumed by AI data centers in 2025.

I'm sorry, the market research firm is named what now?

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[–] Nurgus@lemmy.world 69 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Tech Bros love naming their stuff after evil Tolkien shit. And they seem to do it totally unironically - as if they read the books but were confused about which side the good guys were.

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

Did you see the post yesterday about Thiel unironically arguing that Mordor was the optimal society in the story and Gandalf was just a confused old guy.

Be aware there is no good original source for this. Just articles referencing each other.

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[–] yakko@feddit.uk 18 points 2 months ago (1 child)

It's a tough one because he is already known to be that twisted of a person, so it's almost not even interesting to know if he actually said it.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

His actions provide evidence that this is consistent with his morally bankrupt value system

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[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Be aware there is no good original source for this.

Well, there is a source. Good? I don’t think so, but I’m sure there are those who will argue.

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

Thats a source for the idea but not for the question of whether Thiel agreed with that idea or not.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago

The source is everything he says and does

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 point 2 months ago

THiel apparently is the only one obsessed with LOTR, kinda wierd how he perverted the way LOTR is.

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