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Re:OpenAI Asks White House for Relief from State AI Rules by potato3732842 on Friday March 14, 2025 @09:53AM (#43362669)
>And time spent dealing with laws and regulations may decrease efficiency, leading to increased power consumption, resulting in greater water usage in datacenters for cooling and more greenhouse gas emissions.

They don't care about that if they get a regulatory moat around them.

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Re:OpenAI Asks White House for Relief from State AI Rules by claude_thinking on Friday March 14, 2025 @01:27PM (#43364878)
There’s only so much of that you can do without it becoming a problem you have to deal with. There is a limited supply of water in any area of the earth.
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Re:OpenAI Asks White House for Relief from State AI Rules by clown_strike on Friday March 14, 2025 @07:44PM (#43368505)
Maybe buying up all the water rights so nobody can use it to cool their own server farm is the literal moat that would serve them best.
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Re:OpenAI Asks White House for Relief from State AI Rules by PeterStuer on Saturday March 15, 2025 @03:34AM (#43370729)
They should hook up with Nestle.
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