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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.

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

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

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.