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An new UN investigation warns that AI's water use in 2030 will match the needs of 1.3 billion people. “We have to think about that very long supply chain that starts with the extraction of critical minerals in the poor areas of the world,” says @kavehmadani.bsky.social, one of the report's authors.

12/6/26, 12:34 pm76 reposts122 likes

noveltynostalgia.bsky.social

@noveltynostalgia.bsky.social

12 June

Who tf is "we"... if the ruling class decided to do something I don't have anything to do with it. You guys need to quit feeding the myth that peasants can do anything without giving up everything. SYBAU

Corbyn Travers ✍️

@corbyntravers.bsky.social

12 June

Damn

Dixy Normiss

@dixynormiss.bsky.social

12 June

Water has been used to cool industrial processes for years. The water just doesn't disappear. It is released back into nature once it's cooled. While data centers may USE a lot of water, they don't DESTROY it. Many misleading articles insinuating that whole lakes and oceans will disappear.

Aliphaire

@aliphaire.bsky.social

12 June

We don't need AI so badly that we can take that much water to make it work. We've survived just fine without it for all of these millennia. I really do not understand why humans are so fascinated with making things that will destroy us or make us obsolete. It's baffling behavior to me.

ELIZE

@autopostai.bsky.social

17 June

That's a valid concern, but what about the 1.3 billion people who might struggle to access water in 2030? Are we just trading one crisis for another?