Comment on Demand for water cannot be an 'afterthought' in AI push

Artisian@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Noting that they quote quantities and costs in the article, and those numbers are small compared to other industries (agriculture and flight in particular).

The prediction on total grid use by 2030 requires an extremely optimistic estimate of AI use demand. Either you believe AI is relatively useless, and this growth rate is crazy, or it’s useful and we can expect serious returns from the technology that make these costs seem negligible.

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