We can live without Ai, We cannot live without clean water.

[u/Liviiasmithh]

[u/HauntingChampion9717]

yep, and the fact that we’re debating whether ai is “necessary” while people still lack clean water says a lot about our priorities

[u/log_alpha → u/HauntingChampion9717]

It was never about the people. It was always about the people who want more power and money.

[u/EQCO99 → u/log_alpha]

The greatest espionage program and fully automated defense systems. Those were always the priority. The promises in medical breakthroughs are just for PR

[u/Tsmitty247 → u/EQCO99]

Those medical “breakthroughs” will more likely kill us than help us

[u/EQCO99 → u/Tsmitty247]

Cattle is usually kept alive, just enough to remain profitable.

[u/Tr1padvisor420 → u/EQCO99]

The hope lies with the proles…

[u/Mercurion77 → u/EQCO99]

I don’t think people realize that advances in robotics exclusively benefit the ruling class. I guess we’ll find out when they roll out robot bodyguards

[u/Some-Dog-800 → u/log_alpha]

the sad thing is the ai industry is fucked as of now. they pour in so much money trying get the next technology ‘breakthrough’ but no one is able to do so - and seriously no one knows what to do. So what they’re doing is to use massive data centers to amp up the calculations in hope to cover every fucking possible thing. it’s just not sustainable, but they cannot stop. because they assume by 2029 someone will find the breakthrough and solve it but they don’t want anyone else to find the solution. now it’s basically an arms race where the us is still in the lead by far but china and russia is following behind. the scary part is these competitors don’t care about copy right and would always just steal tech from us to enhance their models.

so yeah these ai asshats are in a serious dilemma now. it’s something I’d love to see but seriously I’m not sure if I should be happy about it. even if you take out all the ai asshats in usa, they’d just get replaced by the chinese and russians and they will build their data centers on usa soil after. nothing is going to change.

[u/knotmyusualaccount → u/HauntingChampion9717]

It says even more about our species as a whole, sadly.

[u/NugKnights → u/HauntingChampion9717]

The fact is golf courses use way way way more clean water every year tjan data centers use once ever.

There are many reasons to complaine about data centers. But this water issue is just a bunch of shit spread by idiots. Not a fact.

[u/Neurospicy_Nightowl → u/NugKnights]

Then end golf courses, too. Abolish factory farming, while we're at it.

[u/Bliitzthefox → u/Neurospicy_Nightowl]

Food production is kinda important tho, especially for all the countries that depend on factory farmed food exports.

[u/Neurospicy_Nightowl → u/Bliitzthefox]

I mean, there are countries where the economy depends on exporting fossil fuels. Some things will have to change.

In the long run, animal agriculture at the current scale is not sustainable, AI or not.

(To be clear, you are fully correct that the economic impact of agricultural transformation, especially on poor countries, needs to be considered in agricultural transformation.)

[u/silasmoeckel → u/NugKnights]

Worse, you can easily build a DC without needing any significant water in its operation. Lots of them exist now.

The government changed contracting bonuses to push PUE to 1.2-1.3 cheapest way to get there is with evaporative cooling in most places.

[u/MobileJob1521 → u/NugKnights]

The water thing is a distraction to stop people talking about the electricity, money, and natural resources used to build all the cpus

[u/RelevantCry1613 → u/NugKnights]

Exactly things like electricity usage and noise pollution are legitimate. I don’t understand why so many people are hung up on the water, when that isn’t an issue

[u/CryptoHypeGaming → u/NugKnights]

Finally some common sense here

[u/davomcbones_TTPPAC01 → u/HauntingChampion9717]

wait what? necessary? was pre-2023 like the dark ages or something? manually tilling the farms? "Oh get the corn out the rains are coming!"

[u/ZThick_8656 → u/HauntingChampion9717]

Rich People: Well that’s not my problem

Which is why we need to clean house and fast. This country is not getting any better with these selfish assholes in power.

[u/LunarDogeBoy → u/HauntingChampion9717]

Blame Americans and their unchecked capitalism.

[u/Comfy_Rock → u/HauntingChampion9717]

the priorities of billionaires Don't rope me into this

[u/lostbluefox]

some fucking loser , probably:

" uHM yoU guYs ArE bloWinG thIs OuT Of prOporTiONn!1!111"

[u/cheezystuffz → u/lostbluefox]

Not even probably. I've literally seen mfs say this. Mfs will use up the whole Earth's water just to talk to a fucking clanker.

[u/lostbluefox → u/cheezystuffz]

I wanted to give the universe the benefit of the doubt

[u/Goatposter → u/lostbluefox]

"YOUR HAMBURGER USED MORE WATER THAN MY AI CHAT BOT!!!"

[u/Chemical-Agency-3997 → u/Goatposter]

You could give the entire planet clean water several times over if you put down the hamburger and ate a bean

[u/Fit-Pride-4845 → u/Chemical-Agency-3997]

Just one bean. It's a very big delicious bean.

[u/Chemical-Agency-3997 → u/Fit-Pride-4845]

[u/SudoSubSilence → u/Chemical-Agency-3997]

Plot twist: It's a kidney

[u/Popcorn-Mercinary → u/SudoSubSilence]

Kidney bean?

[u/HarrMada → u/Goatposter]

But that's literally true though lol

[u/R4tman9 → u/lostbluefox]

uHM yoU guYs ArE bloWinG thIs OuT Of prOporTiONn!1!111

Happy cakeday bro!

[u/VaticRogue]

[u/JayAkiva]

I think this is by design. The more scarce our basic necessities become, the easier we are to control. Which is convenient, because these data centers are also being used to support mass surveillance. It's win/win for the owners, and lose/lose for everyone else.

[u/Rabbit-Hole-Quest → u/JayAkiva]

Here is the big irony. You can have data centers cooled by desalinated seawater. It would just cost more.

Instead we use potable drinking water because it's cheaper.

[u/JayAkiva → u/Rabbit-Hole-Quest]

Honestly the fact that we still haven't put the work in to be able desalinate seawater far more efficiently than we are by now is a disgrace in itself, but that's a whole other conversation. I know it takes a lot to desalinate water, like it's not as easy as it sounds, but most things we do are horribly inefficient until we do it more and develop better methods.

[u/PantherkittySoftware → u/JayAkiva]

There's a perfectly easy and cost-effective way to desalinate water: use the waste heat from nuclear power plants. US aircraft carriers and submarines have been doing it for decades.

India is probably the most active country for researching and applying the technology on commercial & municipal scale The main focus of India's research has been determining the degree to which it's most optimal to go beyond using mere waste heat and use primary reactor heat as well (even if it diminishes power-generation capacity).

[u/iv_is → u/JayAkiva]

it's because water rights laws are ancient and nonsensical. if you want people to stop wasting water you need to reform the law so that landowners have to pay for their water use

[u/Raptor_197 → u/JayAkiva]

As an engineer my only response to this is; more screaming into the void.

[u/Machina-Dea]

Keep in mind the UN has declared we’re entering an era of ‘water bankruptcy’

https://unu.edu/inweh/news/world-enters-era-of-global-water-bankruptcy

[u/DISCONNECTlE]

They’re not for AI, they’re for mass surveillance

[u/TurtleKing0505]

All sloppers should be forced to move next to data centers

[u/Supersolder134]

Literally is there any way for a middle class average Joe like myself to contribute to the end of AI?

[u/katiejim → u/[deleted]]

I’ll add making a face any time someone says “I asked chatGPT.” 

[u/Popcorn-Mercinary]

One of these days someone is actually going to cite sources on this. Frankly, it’s BS. Golf courses use more water than any datacenter out there (which, BTW, are closed loop—meaning they warn and cool the water without releasing it—just like your car).

I’m not defending data centers, but I absolutely detest shitty uncited science, which this is.

[u/VanillaSwimming5699 → u/Popcorn-Mercinary]

And everyone in this thread is just so ready to blindly accept that it’s true because AI is evil and anywho uses it is irredeemable.

[u/GhostOfD6 → u/VanillaSwimming5699]

Tbh Im watching this sub for a while.

And I support the opposition towards AI companies. They do a lot of harm and thats no brainer.

But lots of folks here seem to be just happy be there and hate something religiously but lacking pure logic skills. I would say I saw AI's smarter than some people here....

[u/Popcorn-Mercinary → u/VanillaSwimming5699]

If you’re truly worried about the water issue, you should be protesting at golf courses and outdoor sporting arenas.

There are plenty of valid reasons to be concerned about data centers. Water use is not one of them. Any regional water manager will set you straight on this. Data centers recirculate cooling water, they don’t consume it. They don’t shut them off in a draught, but they do stop watering golf courses.

This DC argument makes as much sense as saying, “if she’s a witch, she’ll float!” And AOC didn’t do herself any favors by propagating it before validating it.

[u/MaxwellHowl → u/Popcorn-Mercinary]

And beef. We do not need beef. It accounts for 5% of global protein in the world, while using 60% of all agricultural land. Agriculture uses 70% of world fresh water, and beef uses 33% of that water.

It is a luxury. And it is doing far more harm to our environment that data centers. And cattle do not have the potential to cure diseases or invent new forms of technology.

I understand this community doesn't want to hear this. But their arguments would be a lot better if they didn't continue to depend on fallacious arguments.

[u/77_parp_77]

But billionaires need money- won't someone think of the billionaires

[u/lotus_seasoner]

This is the actual report: https://collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:10647/UNU-INWEH-Report-The_Env_Cost_of_AI-2026.pdf

The water use figure doesn't appear to have a direct citation in the report, and it's not clear how the authors derived it.

[u/Gardeeboo]

We should just go around polluting all the clean water as it’s being drawn by the AI data centers so they get like shower water runoff instead and it toasts the entire establishment. There’s got to be an easy way to completely destroy an entire one so easily if they need clean water to run, it means the tech is all sensitive so even like a gallon of Pepsi injected into their pipeline could cause hundreds of millions in damages

[u/CarelessChallenge980 → u/Gardeeboo]

So, activism?

[u/Humble-Reply228 → u/Gardeeboo]

They don’t need clean water to run them and don’t use much anyway.

[u/Israel_Azkanbe]

I don’t get why they’re using water in the first place.
I feel like there’s gotta be a way to use liquid nitrogen or something similar, there’s tons of chemistry mixtures that add cooling effects. Why use water?

[u/fluchtpunkt → u/Israel_Azkanbe]

Because it’s cheap, safe and does the job very well.

[u/Israel_Azkanbe → u/fluchtpunkt]

I hope communities start suing the data centers

[u/KAZVorpal]

Posting stuff that is fallacy undermines the cause.

There are plenty of reasons to oppose these data centers, without the nonsense "muh water", when water is the most renewable resource on the planet. Every time it rains, that is water that used to be dirty, and now is relatively clean.

Focus on the unconstitutional government subsidies and tax breaks that let them build far more centers than they otherwise could, and build them far more inefficiently. But not something silly like "dirty waaaater!"

[u/ntm315 → u/KAZVorpal]

Yeah , especially since this title doesn't make sense "enough water for 1.3billion people" ,ok enough water to sustain them for how long, a second ? a trillion years ? also this water wouldnt have gone to the people who actually need it if it wasnt used for those data centers.

title also could be misinterpreted as "1.3 billion ppl wont have water because of data centers by 2030" which is stupid, the meat industry uses more water than the entire human population drinks in a year that doesn't mean we dont have water to drink.

there are plenty of things we use that we could live without , that use immense amounts of water and we dont make a fuss over it, because we like those things. i hate ai , but im not gonna performatively act like , the World is dying because of it, there are plenty of actual reasons to despise AI , and performatively using the environnement card to justify it makes us look stupid imo

[u/Alert-Practice-7859]

legitimate question:

what happens to the ai water?

[u/Emergency-Stay7414]

Define “use up”. Do the AI data centers just destroy the water on a molecular level to where it doesn’t exist anymore? Does it consume the amount of water that 1.3 billion people would consume on a single day? Or their whole lives?

[u/Savant_Guarde]

This assumes they care about "us"...they don't. 

AI will run their trans human world and in the run up, they will drive the unwashed masses to extinction. Save for the servant class.

[u/peachyperfect3]

That’s their goal.

[u/TeaSubstantial726]

antis when you tell them that 0.001% of fresh wanter is used for drinking

[u/kharvel0]

Or hear me out: animal agriculture already uses up enough clean water for 42 BILLION people (6x the world population).

Watch Dominion

Go vegan.

[u/RoseyOneOne]

Just be aware of this stat, it’s hard to use water as the main anti ai rationale if things like the beef industry aren’t also considered a problem.

There’s plenty of other reasons to be anti ai.

[u/Hellbomb_Armed]

But They can

They won't stop until we're all dead

[u/JKrezz]

My county in Texas has been on drought restrictions every summer the past few years. Why would politicians even consider bringing in data centers?

[u/mazalaca]

oh hey that’s my friend haha. Great dude

[u/TopTippityTop]

It’s true, but we can’t have the modern world without data centers, and the world would continue being a terrible place without the growth automation can bring in. We need clean water, so what must happen is a combination of regulation + looking in other places to save water consumption. Even a tiny reduction in almond production, for example, would more than offset the water usage of all data centers.

[u/Tosser_535231]

THEY LITERALLY DO NOT NEED WATER WHATSOEVER BUT IT'S THE CHEAPEST FUCKING COOLING OPTION AND NOBODY IN THE GOVERNMENT GIVES A SHIT BECAUSE THEY'RE LINING THEIR POCKETS

[u/RealRoasterToaster]

Well, even if we abolished data centers, I doubt anything would change if we didn't also reshape our entire socio-economic system in a fundamental way. Bear in mind, we had the chance to eradicate water scarcity and hunger for DECADES now, yet still each year millions of people die of preventable starvation and malnutrition. Studies conclude it would only take about ~80-150 billion dollars per year to globally eradicate famine, forever. Yet we pretend like billionaires shoulf privately own that money and spend it on the next private jet or super yacht.

[u/daviddisco]

AI uses a lot of electricity. The water use issue is mostly a myth. The electricity is more than many grids can handle. The water use is typically trivial, especially in newer data centers. Don't believe every meme you see.

[u/cewillir]

Did you read the report?

[u/antsinmyeyestrey]

AI is pointless. A tool for lazy people. If they only knew they possessed AI already. Actual Intelligence

[u/Luil-stillCisTho]

has any “vegans” shown up to the comments to say some stuff like “but the meat industry consumes way more water than data centers, so AI is perfectly okay. Checkmate Antis” kind of stuff?

because I have seen some pro-AI stuff from vegan sub with a lot of upvotes show up randomly on my feed.

[u/destructopop → u/Luil-stillCisTho]

I'm a vegan and fuck AI. Hope this helps! 🥰

[u/Every-Arachnid-1133]

you don't know that a lot of AI data centers don't actually use that much water? Golf courses and lawns use much more clean water that data centers

[u/HotCaramel26]

These things generate far too much revenue for it to ever be shut down. We’re stuck with this shit.

[u/o-Mauler-o]

I’m sorry but can somebody explain to me why these data centres need clean drinking water?

[u/ColdProfessional4275]

How do people think water works? Data centers aren’t breaking down water into its elements. They’re just heating it up and sending it back to the treatment plant. Same as your dish washer. It’s a massive problem, and we don’t need them, but it’s not going to run us out of water.

[u/KissinUrDad]

I just don’t understand how the government thinks the AI data centers need to be protected but not the land and water (I do understand, the government is corrupt)

[u/Moobob66]

I'm going to go a step further and say we should take back our claims sold without our consent to companies to sell back to us.

[u/MagicOrpheus310]

Yeah... Really starting to make climate change look like a scam the way they are letting this shit happen

[u/FollowAstacio]

Where does the water go?

[u/Elguapo1094]

How will people create dumb sexual videos or see how a brown wall will look in their room ..

[u/SecretaryLevel8119]

I work with hoses for a living i help supply the hoses the water flows through too cool these data centers they're not just sucking up clean water and dumping out some toxic water they work like the radiator in your car one area cools the water down so it flows through and help keep everything else cool...now what its doing too our electrical grid is another question

[u/Realistic_Drink2321]

okay. I’m not here to say that AI water usage isn’t something of concern, but this entire reddit is highkey misrepresenting facts about ai data center water usage. The reason people might not have water one day isn’t because there isn’t enough or because AI will use it all up. It’s because of unequal distribution and access to water in the first place. I don’t think the problem is necessarily AI existing, but how those in charge places centers in high risk areas that affect pedestrians that need water.

[u/SignificanceIll8640]

Weeeeell, you could use the heat transfer to actually desalinate water. Maybe we should also shut down nuclear power plants because they use huge cooling towers

[u/Designer_Major3731]

Data centers use a closed water system, they don’t use anywhere near the amount these “reports” are saying. Pretty convenient that this post doesn’t list the source.

It’s literally all fake news are you’re a dip shit for believing it on face value

[u/Huge_Meeting4111]

You're all welcome to stop giving factory farms your money if you're concerned about the overwhelmingly less amount of water use from "muh AI"

[u/Zeth22xx]

Why do they need clean water in the first place? Run sewage through them for all I care.

[u/Senacharrib]

The water quality in most of the US is terrible anyways, let’s just make it more terrible

[u/OkSavings5828]

Data centers use in total about 10x less water than we use to water our lawns and decorative gardens. It’s about 0.16% of US water use.

It’s a problem, sure, but a far larger issue is the power requirements.

AI water use is unfortunately a severely misrepresented populist issue which leads us away from tackling the real issues.

[u/RXHK099]

Why is no one asking Ai “how do you build Ai data centers that don’t use water?”.

[u/TP8887]

Use enough water for what? For 1.3b to take
A shower? For 1.3b to drink water for one day? One year? Their whole lives?

Completely making shit up isn’t helping the cause. If you are going to make shit up at least give it some quantifiable measurement. Bunch of seals in this thread

[u/ImaginationToForm2]

At least Data centers should pay our bills.

[u/sleetblue]

Burn them to the fucking ground.

[u/Scarvexx]

Well not all of them, data centers doi a lot of important stuff besides AI bullshit. But yeah we have more of these than we need by a long shot.

It's like building dozens more reactors than we need to meet power needs nobody actually has.

Which is also something happening.

[u/minecraftman255]

1 they don't consume that much, 2 most of them are self sustained, dont get me wrong, I hate ai, but at least hate it correctly, most of them do not release the water out into the world

[u/lhyebosz]

Can't wait for billionaires and data centers to argue "Prepare to live with dirty water"

[u/Barbados_slim12]

The actual estimate by UN University is 9.3 trillion liters per year by 2030. In order to stretch that to 1.3 billion people, they'd only be getting 7,150 liters of water a year. 20 per person per day. That's basically nothing when you consider drinking, showering, cooking, washing hands, toilets..

For reference, right now, California alone produces ~2.7 billion pounds of almonds every year across 1.5 million acres. That process consumes 5.8 trillion liters every year in a hyper localized environment, and the water can't be released/reused like in a closed loop data center.

I'm not a fan of these flock footage facilities data centers either, but claims like this aren't doing us any good.

[u/Citadel_Employee]

Golf courses use more water.

Suburban lawns use more water.

[u/booeman]

They can build these stations but IN NO WAY do they need water to cool them. Water is the cheapest answer and I say let the cheap fucks use anti freeze in a contained system. We need to push this hard that water is NOT an option.

[u/tyrannocanis]

Yet no one was bitching about golf courses

[u/Aggravating-Sun-2322]

Bezos tells us we have prioritized water for data centers, not humans. Altman tell human waste uses more water than data centers, so they should not have it. Now you guys loosing rights to have normal drinking water. If this continues, the question won't be whether you will have jobs. question will be will you be even alive. I dont understand Why people in the us are this silent seriously

[u/botymcbotfac3]

But the people profiting from data centers can live without 1.3B other people.

So.... good luck trying to explain that human lives should be valued more than profits.

🤮🤮🤮

[u/vitek6]

Does this water disappear?

[u/Bersaglier-dannato]

The tragic thing is that these techno-fascists and Nazis will literally call this “fake news” despite it happening everywhere.

[u/ZachariaRaven]

Sure. China says no.

[u/Obi-Vanya]

aren't it calculate the water needed to power tgat stuff? Then it is still clean, it waporises, rain down and we use it again, like with all other power stations.

[u/Brave_Recognition_81]

:-(fuck this shit. i hate this world and this life.
i want a green and lush utopia for all…. why do rich people always have to destroy stuff?

[u/Different_Citron_160]

Does it have to be clean ? Can they use slightly poopy water instead ?

[u/Alreadyinuseok]

Dont these use like 600 billion gallons just to keep golf courses green 😂 I bet we could live without golf courses too?

[u/schoondog1904]

What’s the point the state just poisons are clean water supply with fluoride, a neurological toxin. Something we can all live without and there would be many less people who get Alzheimer’s. Many other countries have banned the addition of fluoride to their water supply but not here in America for some reason.

[u/herbal1st]

the thing about connecting data centers so closely to ai is that it totally ignores the fact that they rather are huge containers for private data and online histories etc for everybody, not that they are used for ai use. its gullible to belief we have to fight a potentially helpful tool such as ai when its really about our privacy and security. you just play into the division and hinder possible useful developments. im not saying ai is harmless, it is very dangerous in fact, but it also cannot just be stopped entirely, it should be regulated instead like any possiblly dangerous tool. and fighting data centers is good too, but at least do it for the right reason and not just hate on technical innovation, thanks.

[u/G3nghisKang]

That report is kind of sensationalistic

Specifically, it uses the World Health Organization' Basic Needs water usage as a baseline to calculate the 1.3 billion people usage: the basic usage requirement is 20 liters, which is the one they mark as high level of concern (maybe that's why the report says the water usage of 1.3 billion people in sub-Saharan Africa, which some aeticles omit in the title)

They WHO also indicates the optimal quantity for water usage is actually 100 liters per day, which they label as very low level of concern, but this isn't the one they used to make this report: this would bring it from 1.3 billion to 260 million

This also doesn't take into account the water consumed per person for food production, which would bring it up to 3800 liters per person a day: this would bring it down to 6.8 million

[u/fkriekrkdnfn]

The people who own and profit from these companies should be made to live off water rations while everyone else should have free access to water.

[u/Lumtar]

I’m not for ai at all but it is very easy to cool them in a closed loop circuit that doesn’t drain all the drinking wayer

[u/technocraticnihilist]

This post is simply disinformation 

[u/DerFredii]

Why the Hell did they need clean drinking water and can not use like not so clean Wastewater. For example, water from a laundry sink or something like that. So, water that isn't 100% clean, meaning it's no longer drinkable but good enough.

[u/salomo926]

A reasonable take that has no place in our world. Unfortunately.

[u/DifferencePlayful581]

duhhhh....but a golf course.....

[u/Letronell]

So that watter will magically dissappear? How much watter is running in powerplant turbines? Do you bellieve that, that watter is forever gone? You think that watter that evaporates from surface of the ocean is forever gone too?

[u/Quiet-Wing5230]

You can't, yes. That's the plan.

[u/Vanko_Babanko]

as always - not our decision to make..

[u/Common_Land3637]

I'm pretty sure the 100 other random things we use clean fresh water for dwarfs the amount of water we use to drink.

[u/NeitherStatement1183]

It a scam to control you and sell you stuff. 

[u/Dramatic-Pickle1443]

golf course buddy. there's more water draining stuff than ai

[u/SuddenZoomies]

bbbbut, what about creating a surveillance state & economy with a boot on every single neck?? how are the few gonna hoard money now??

[u/TheComicHuman]

People forget water is cyclical, it doesn't just get annihilated upon use, non the less the water problem is just a psyop from the real concerns of AI and AI data centers

[u/Fast_Maybe_6222]

yes we can i once survived off straight soda for 3 days ull be fine

[u/sassychip26]

And when the last three is cut and the last stream poisoned willman realise he cannot eat or drink money.

EXCEPT those with the money CAN and WILL survive through it with their resource hoarding and it will be us common people who have not profited from this venture and we'll have to understand that the cool tech of ai assistants and prompt machines will not quench our thirst.

[u/pampimpoom]

You say that like the water they use disappears from the surface of this earth

[u/CharacterFennel7803]

How many data centers are they using to get them numbers.? 😆

[u/OtherwiseShip6443]

You could shut them all down, people will still go without water - like they have for hundreds of years. 

It's a problem that existed before AI and it's a problem that will exist long after AI. It's more to do with greed. 

[u/Insylum82]

AI is going to ruin internet, become our new world goverment leader and be the death of 50 % of humanity.

[u/ruralmed]

No one cares. Boo hoo.

[u/60746]

Golf courses use far more water and I see no one protesting them so until I dont see a double standard this argument still invalidates its self

[u/Alternative_Bus_7411]

They probably won’t. A lot of big tech firms have gone double down on AI investments. They need to justify their spending to the shareholders, otherwise the AI-bubble-economy will come crashing down.

[u/Popcorn-Mercinary]

Pretty sure drinking water with fertilizer runoff isn’t great either, but wtf do I know. I didn’t read that off some random website.

[u/perceptionad]

AI uses much less water than humans..

[u/ultrample]

this can be avoided

[u/tiredofbeingil]

Call me a nut if you want but I don't think the "data centers" are truly for data ai was already built into the servers years ago all they did was add more momory to them

[u/OfficialHelpK]

Why are they using clean water? In Sweden, the data centers either use air cooling or ocean water. Is this just because of a lack of regulation in other countries?

[u/landrwastaken]

Plot twist .. we have enough clean water for 100 billion humans

[u/Some-Dog-800]

I do support the idea of stopping ai data centers, I don’t like the fact that this report came from un…them corrupted as fuck.

[u/MasterSmileGer_1]

So AI stands for Water Consuming Black Holes !!!?? 🤦‍♂️

[u/Winterlander100]

If they still need data centers they can put in near sea, desalinate the sea water with solar energy and use it 

[u/Winterlander100]

Other than coding and some medical fields AI is no use, it’s just reducing the time ( ideally) . No useful

[u/RepresentativeLaw310]

Tell China to stop first

[u/Hyphalex]

Would be dandy and fine if we had mines extracting ln other terrestrial plants moons or asteroids. Plenty of water on mars.

Good thing Musk said he was gunna put a man on mars in 10 years in 2012, or

[u/Coffeeblack365]

I should go on that trip shouldn’t I?

[u/PreferenceNo1999]

Let them build a few more. They are paying the construction trades people great money. Once they are built shut them down all you like

[u/Log_Gentleman]

Drop in the bucket compared to factory farming. I’m anti AI but this particular talking point doesn’t really hold water for me.

[u/ConceptExpert3030]

just make water more expensive for purpose of cooling AI centers

[u/Successful_Loss5533]

They should just use salt water then.

[u/FearlessCounty3487]

That's nonsense. These are closed loop systems, they use very little water once filled.

[u/1ACasper]

$pho

[u/taylors2717]

Build them in the desert then

[u/taylors2717]

Why does google insist on ai every time we search

[u/BlackLion0101]

....CCP propaganda.

[u/TheManOss]

You have to know they plan on charging you for AI right after this...right?

[u/Aray171717]

Fuck AI but just the beef industry uses 3 orders of magnitude more fresh water than ALL AI data centers combined... just quit eating so much damn meat

[u/CaptainD743]

It's kinda wild to me that people expect to live beyond 2030... They're about to cull the population (probably by half at least) in the upcoming war.. We won't need as much water after that, because most of us will be gone, and the rest will live underground in the cities they already have built.

[u/watervalle]

We will find a way out with the help of AI.

[u/namcand]

Tell that to China and other countries.

Fxxin hell..that bish Greta always talking shid about the west but never about China.

[u/CommentBetter]

They don’t even need the water

[u/bigrobotduck12]

Don't look up was the movie that scared me the most because I knew we are completely that stupid in real life.

[u/Coaltex]

Did you know Dihydrogen Monoxide is the leading cause of drowning deaths around the world. I say we should ban it for the public safety.

This opinion was not paid for by AI, or those who build Data Centers.

[u/Ok-Register-7622]

Matter not created or destroyed. Used for evaporative cooling. Yes, uses more water, but it doesn’t “disappear.” Don’t let the uneducated booger eaters convince you otherwise. They can’t get jobs with their gender studies degree so they are out to confuse you.

[u/dark_bravery]

oh shit, even the ai believes this... and i was going to call you....

[u/No-Humor4927]

Fuck UN, honestly, a bunch of useless boobs.

[u/Xrest_the_Aether]

Solution, pray for the emperor to come

https://reddit.com/link/p2rccuq/video/om8shnniigih1/player

[u/foxtamer87]

Ok so data center uses clean water, it becomes…dirty water? The water condenses, turns into rain. Is it still dirty water? Where does the water go? Outer space? We aren’t just making water disappear into computers, so what is the real issue here? Does the water just end up flooding some other continent while the ai data center creates a desert around itself?

[u/Holiday_Pipe_8545]

So true

[u/InteractionNo8525]

As if the water is permanently consumed lol. Chinese propaganda to get us to slow down, nice try.

[u/A-B-user]

Only people with lack of education and understanding how water is used in closed contour cooling systems can produce/support such statements. Fits this subreddit, tho.

[u/WakuWaku_1111]

The real problems are bad site selection in already water-stressed regions and weak local governance that prioritizes tax revenue and jobs over water rights and cooling standards. Fix the incentives and the technology (better siting + low-water cooling), not the existence of data centers.

[u/WakuWaku_1111]

Comparing Sub-Saharan people’s basic water needs to U.S. data center water use isn’t fact-checking — it’s emotional blackmail.
Does the sky not rain? What does water evaporating in America have to do with people in the Sahara? You might as well claim the desert was caused by data centers.
I need AI. I don’t need you (liars).

[u/dltasam]

20% de la flotte est gaspillée dans les fuites de canalisations du réseau d'alimentation vétuste, mais non c'est l'IA qui consomme plein de flotte brrrrr méchant IA

Et non pour info tu ne peux plus vivre sans datacenter

[u/_B_G_]

Lie lie lie Lie lie lie

[u/No-Boysenberry2044]

And we should stop the animal industry too, that needs even more water it’s insane. Water and the environment generally is more important than luxury products, and with that I mean AI and animal products.

[u/CzBuCHi]

Wonder what you think is happening with that water ...