The issue with AI datacenters was never about water. Water is an easily dismissable strawman that sloppers love to bring on.
The real issue with AI datacenters is the huge amounts of wasted energy, after decades of energy efficiency efforts.
The real issue with AI datacenters is the huge amounts of wasted energy, after decades of energy efficiency efforts.
Yet we don't.
If people don't like AI, they should just say so, no need to skirt around.
I don't like the snake oil being sold as AI.
LLMs rely on many core AI concepts and techniques: neural networks, backpropagation, transformer inference, etc. An LLM is essentially an implementation of AI.
The term AI has been around since 1955, and has been used by the academics ever since then.
You might not like ChatGPT and co, but they're definitely AIs lol, at least in academic sense.
[edit] This is an awfully pessimistic take. Even if these companies will largely do whatever they like, some of us can at least make choices to use alternatives. That is probably what you were getting at.
It's also "caught more press" because for some insane reason these clowns keep wanting to build them in deeply drought-stricken desert regions where many people are already under water restrictions due to the ongoing drought.
Try persuading people to share your values.
unreal fucking chutzpah. even here, where current thing activists do occasionally get challenged with indisputable evidence debunking their wild claims, they still stubbornly cling to the water narrative. on reddit and other spaces populated by the intellectual majority, it's gospel that every chatgpt query consumes a lake.