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[–] 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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  • [–] 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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  • [–] 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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  • [–] 42 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Here a neat fact: Palo Verde, a nuclear power station in Arizona that generates so much power that it is the 2nd largest power plant in the United States is cooled entitrely by the treated waste water from Phoenix.

    This is to illustrate that Data centers can be designed to be environmentally friendly, its just the greedy corpo pigshit that demands they suck drinking water out of water tables to power AI that nobody wants.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    How long until angry farmers attack a data center?

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  • [–] 27 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    The AI apologists in this thread are wild to me. It's too bad they don't have access to some kinda tool that could give them information on how water tables work.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    They’re in fuck around mode, they’ll eventually find out how it works.

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  • [+] 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)
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    [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Fuck all these thirsty clankers and their apologist simps.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    Albania showed us the way. Doing nothing is a choice. Vive la revolución ✊🏼🇦🇱

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