• Deestan@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Here are a range of estimates of AI data center water use for California, based mostly on simple fundamental physics of converting energy use to water use for cooling. I did these calculations and then, perhaps appropriately, checked and explored these estimates using four AI models

    He guessed, then asked the sycophant machine to tell him he is a smart and clever boy.

    To illustrate his point he used a nightmare-inducing AI generated image with talking headless birds and water flowing uphill into both ends of a tube.