article forgot to mention the usual "think about the water usage"

What’s the point of attacking a straw man while ignoring the actual points being brought up?

The water usage by data centers is fairly trivial in most places. The water use manufacturing the physical infrastructure + electricity generation is surprisingly large but again mostly irrelevant. Yet modern ‘AI’ has all sorts of actual problems.

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seizethecheese 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It mentions ecological destruction, which I must say is way better than water usage, AI is a power hog after all.

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rootnod3 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If it's the "usual reply", maybe it's because....I dunno...water is kinda important?

	▲	queenkjuul 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm also not convinced the HN refrain of "it's actually not that much water" is entirely true. I've seen conflicting reports from sources i generally trust, and it's no secret an all-GPU AI data center is more resource intensive than a general purpose data center.