Re:Google's Liquid Cooling
by jeffbee on Monday August 25, 2025 @03:21PM
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The reason you see frequent mentions of AI wasting water is there is a massive influence operation that seeks to destroy knowledge, science, and technology in the United States and return most of us to a state of bare subsistence, working menial jobs or reduced to literal slavery. There is no subjective measure by which the water used by AI is even slightly concerning.
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Re:Google's Liquid Cooling
by stripe_away on Monday August 25, 2025 @03:37PM
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> there is a massive influence operation that seeks to destroy knowledge, science, and technology in the United States
Agreed. Started with big tobacco by discrediting the connection to lung cancer, playbook copied by many and weaponized by Russia.
> There is no subjective measure by which the water used by AI is even slightly concerning.
Does not follow from your first point. The water has to be sourced from somewhere, and debates over water rights are as old as civilization. For one recent example, see i.e. https://www.texaspolicy.com/legewaterrights/
You are probably correct that the AI does not damage the water, but unless there are guarantees that the water is rapidly returned "undamaged" to the source, there are many reasons to be concerned about who is sourcing water from where.
Ayyo chill. Don't let on that you know their plans. People aren't ready to know about the operations yet, so you'll come across as off balanced
Re:Google's Liquid Cooling
by williamdclt on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @10:24AM
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It doesn't even pass the sniff test because the "AI wasting water" argument comes from liberals based on ecological concerns, whereas the systematic attack on knowledge/science comes from conservatives who explicitly do not give a crap about ecological concerns
Anti-science sentiment isn’t exclusively a conservative thing, there are definitely anti-science liberals as well.