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The only one that's not entirely true is the water usage concern. The vast amount of water usage is non-consumptive, and you can even use reclaimed wastewater. To be clear, I'm on your side-- I just want to make sure that we don't give our opponents any ammunition by spouting misinformation. I'm happy to be proven wrong on this. https://blog.andymasley.com/p/the-ai-water-issue-is-fake

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> The vast amount of water usage is non-consumptive

This is not true in any of the datacenters in my state. Their water usage is not only extreme enough to be causing genuine hardship in the communities they're near, but they have recently begun pressuring cities to allow them to drain even more water out of the local supplies.

> I just want to make sure that we don't give our opponents any ammunition by spouting misinformation.

Your enemies aren’t afraid to spout misinformation, and they’re winning.

I think we're doing just fine considering how they have all the resources and every possible advantage, but we're still seeing headlines like this.

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