People are discussing the water impact of AI, a topic that npub12gx0pwyjskh8z8v94az62dxl23tw4a5jn3pl0r296l54nu3hsrkqe04rqj (npub12gx…4rqj) and I discussed last year when he gave me a tour of the Albuquerque water system.
John encouraged me to compare AI to other water users. Karen Hao cites 50 million gallons a year from Microsoft's Phoenix datacenter. Golf courses in Phoenix use 80 million gallons per *day*.
When managing water, AI is important but there are other users that could make more of a difference.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/ai-water-climate-microsoft/677602/
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2015/09/28/phoenix-golf-courses-use-more-water-than-anywhere-else-in-us/72957908/
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