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Proof of waste.

The answer is a lot! Astronomical!

An insane amount, some estimates have been up to a third of a local grid.

It can be figured out. Basically these mega data centers will become a wasteland, forcing low income families out or die from pollution and dwindling water supplies.Lousinana, Tennessee and Texas.

I'm sure you could modify Amdahl's law to calculate power consumption instead of speed, and calculate the rate of growth in consumption over time. Eventually, we won't be able to keep up with the demand, or will have to sacrifice other services to keep it running.

Admit it. You don't know how much or whose water your pants cost because you don't follow through on the information you gather. YOU DON'T CARE who makes your clothes. Most likely, some woman buys your acrylic made in China fleece at Costco for you still. What an astute revolutionary you are! 🤮

And ALL the questions remain: Do you know how much water it took to produce the pants that YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW? How much water to produce YOUR car? You have NO Answers because you only front. You have generalities not actual data. Because YOU did NOT CARE AT ALL at purchase time 🤷

Seems maybe less factoids and more critical thinking is necessary for you, hm? How much water did you waste being pedantic? Don't do it again! Here, I'll help you: MUTED

That still doesn’t detract from the fact AI is a fraud technology and we’re destroying the earth so indoor kid adults can play pretend.

I’d say whataboutism would be deflecting the legitimate concerns about energy and resource consumption of AI because other things also require the use of energy and resources. Those concerned are also actively working to mitigate those impacts as well, not sure why you’d think otherwise.

Fun fact. Reasonable upper estimate on AI image generation places water consumption at around 0.5 gallons (1.5 liters) per image. A human consumes, at the low end, 80 gallons per day. Mark Twain once said that all arts are derivative, merely concepts fed through a mental kaleidoscope.

And most reasonable upper estimate on AI image gen places water consumption on all sources to be around 0.5 gallons per image. An average human uses 80 gallons per day. Perhaps artists should stop making art and offload it to the efficient, artificial "mental kaleidoscope" (per Mark Twain) instead

I asked Grok this question: How much energy does AI consume on a daily basis? The response: roughly between 100k-500k MWh globally each day, about the same usage as a country like Denmark.

All this waste and for what? A glorified toy that parrots stuff back without any understanding. Grrr.

This is silly, anyone who knows data centers can do simple math. Per node power consumption is literally printed on the spec sheet.

This gives me the odd cinematic hope that the new gods will destroy the evil and save us...but alas, the time has come when men come gods must save themselves from one another.

Not only energy... take a look at the amount of our clean, fresh water AI needs 😱

Former Data Center tech here (worked with machine learning developments). AI is not here for you and I, it's sole purpose is to make money, for the developer and Corp buyers. Something that can change the world as we know it....will, but only for those that pay.

And the Muskrat publically allowed it to be known that he manipulated his AI to be right wing MAGA even though it was trending what he calls "woke" and I call decent and caring and helpful to equal rights and dignity for all. So, the owners are obviously making the AI give the message THEY want.

I mean, this is a fair criticism, but nobody was asking how much energy their Gmail, Google Drive, video game servers, Netflix, etc was all using either, so why does everyone suddenly care how much energy AI servers are using? Yeah it’s more but why start caring now?

There are analyses on various AI sites. In 2024, it used more energy than Belgium. It is an energy vampire.

Heard Ron Deibert from Uni of Toronto speak about this last year. He quoted that every AI search uses 7x energy than an old-style google search. You can type in "... -AI" to tell google search not to use AI. He's written about impact of soc med to society www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the...

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Are wrong answers really facts

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Drill baby drill?

I’m personally more concerned by the sheer volume of water that will be consumed. But, if you are willing to spend billions to restart or build new nuclear reactors, data centers must require more power than is currently available.

Software developers haven't provided delta documents in .... gosh, ages. I doubt AI developers even use version numbers. Plus, we've been using mpg measurements for a hundred years.

All I know for sure is they are building all of these data centers without a lot of thought as to the availability of power to run them. In Texas they've assured everyone that there will be enough power at peak demand to keep the lights on and the air conditioners running, without adding renewable

Narrator: A FUCK TON

It is a big problem

Imagine having a meter app on your phone, laptop and desktop computers that would tell you what your indirect energy footprint is over time and then break it down by function. I get a direct report like this from the power company regarding my home electricity consumption.