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Google was really trying to hide its water use figures, to the degree that it got the council to try to keep its water use figures secret. The community finally got the actual numbers and found out Google was using 29 percent of the water in the community. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

wired.comWhat the US Movement Against Data Centers Can Learn From AbroadParis Marx, author of Hyperscale, has been tracking global data center development for years. The US has a lot to learn from what’s happened everywhere from Ireland to New Zealand.

This is my single biggest reason to oppose hyperscale LLMs and data centers. And the worst part is that they will not turn into AGI, and are at best a step along the way, so it’s consuming a ton of clean water and way too much power for very little overall return.

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Not just very little, actively negative returns. Not only is it poisoning literally through toxins, and figuratively through disinformation, but it loses it's investors and broader economies billions. FFS Anthropic lost 80 billion in six months! And that's just one of these companies.