c/technology · by BrikoX@lemmy.zip · 258d

AI surpasses 2024 Bitcoin mining in energy usage, uses more H₂O than the bottles of water people drink globally — says AI demand could hit 23GW and up to 764 billion liters of water in 2025

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-surpasses-2024-bitcoin-mining-in-energy-usage-uses-more-h20-than-the-bottles-of-water-people-drink-globally-study-claims-says-ai-demand-could-hit-23gw-and-up-to-764-billion-liters-of-water-in-2025

How much of a resource hog is AI?

Study: https://www.cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S2666-3899(25)00278-8

Edit: Changed the "H20" to "H₂O" in the title.

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xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 27 pts · 258d

Please stop, you maniacs.

LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.social · 16 pts · 258d

All this energy wasted on products most people don't even want but big CEOs think it'll earn them loads of money so fuck the planet I guess.

lime@feddit.nu · 13 pts · 258d (6 replies)

why measure against bottled water? that can't possibly be a big percentage of the water people drink.

BrikoX@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 258d (3 replies)

The bottled water market globally is rapidly growing with approximately 550 million households consuming bottled water in 2024. That's more than 446 Billion litres of water per year or 1 million bottles per minute.

https://tappwater.co/blogs/blog/how-many-people-consume-bottled-water-globally

kamenlady@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 258d (1 reply)

1 million bottles per minute

Let that sink in

arty@feddit.org · 2 pts · 256d

I wish that AI keeps using more water than human use bottle water. But for a reason that the latter goes down.

lime@feddit.nu · 5 pts · 258d

so that's... seven percent?

Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 258d

Bottled water is easy to quantify

raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 258d

While I agree it is an odd metric with a misleading phrasing, at this point all people using this shit should have their electronic devices locked away and online time rationed. Fucking selfish twats.

misk@piefed.social · 8 pts · 258d (1 reply)

Crypto mining is still a thing? Capitalism is truly the best at efficient use of resources.

Bakkoda@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 258d

Hey Gemini, show me an efficiency curve based on infinite resources.

Thoath@leminal.space · 5 pts · 258d

Yo guys this pot is really boiling, and I don't think we can leave the pot 🐸

archonet@lemy.lol · 4 pts · 258d

H20?

I'm not sure how you'd bond twenty hydrogen atoms together, but that sounds... particularly explosive.

vogi@piefed.social · 3 pts · 258d