| ▲ | pavel_lishin 3 hours ago | |
> For context, 13 million gallons is enough to fill around 20 Olympic-size swimming pools, and is less than half of what the City of Lincoln reports using on Sept. 29. Over the course of a year, that doesn't sound terrible. | ||
| ▲ | persedes 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
That's wishful thinking, I know, but would love a breakdown of those metrics into what actually goes into AI inference, training versus just TikTok / YouTube streaming, or just a Google search...To have some perspective. My hypothesis that prolonged video streaming might contribute similarly to AI usage? (But CDN etc might make that tricky to calculate...) | ||
| ▲ | tptacek 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
It's not terrible at all. It's dwarfed by common municipal demands, let alone industry or agriculture. It's an amount of water that's basically not worth talking about. | ||