Comment on How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying

• dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This isn’t the article I read but it has tons of info about this:

  bloomberg.com/…/2025-ai-impacts-data-centers-wate…

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  • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s so annoying when you try to discuss this because often a gaggle of idiots come out and point, superficially, that water gets recycled into nature. They always ignore the cost of making that water fit for human usage.

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    • trashboat@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not very well read on this so I could very well be off-base, but couldn’t you leverage the heat as a means to desalinate saltwater instead of using freshwater and letting it evaporate?

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      • vithigar@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        While desalination does need a lot of energy it’s dealing with the waste brine that’s the bigger problem when actually planning one. You can’t just dump it back into the ocean without killing a huge swathe of marine life.

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      • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t think it’s hot enough for that.

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