We’re building AI that answers to the planet. And it’s now more European – which means more independent, and more private.

  • cecilkorik@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    I don’t know if I’d say “many”, but the water usage is a red herring anyway. More importantly, data centers invariably use a lot of power and they are explicitly the reason we are currently reactivating mothballed nuclear and coal power plants, the reason we are not shutting down natural gas plants, in fact many of them are running temporarily, regularly or even full-time on their own small-scale natural gas turbines.

    And they are doing this to generate mass quantities of shitty text and images, and to train new models to do the same, things that provide little to no actual value to humanity.

    AI datacenters are an environmental catastrophe, whether they use any water or not.