AI’s growing thirst for water is becoming a public health risk

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/1/21/ais-growing-thirst-for-water-is-becoming-a-public-health-risk

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DaddleDew@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 223d (1 reply)

They have made up tons of money from circular investments and buy up everything they need out off the hands of everyone else who needed it for more productive purposes with zero consideration to the damage they're doing in their pursuit of a prize that is being increasingly revealed to be vastly exaggerated.

Just look at how their hunger for semiconductors is wreaking havoc on other industries that also need them. If they needed food for AI they would be starving to death hundreds of millions of people right now. Don't let them take the water.

Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 223d

Can't stop them, my state government welcome them with open arms and told them we have plenty of water. They are building 27 in the Tulsa area and 15 I think was the count for the Oklahoma City area. Oklahoma we will be fucked for water.

mintiefresh@piefed.social · 19 pts · 223d (5 replies)

Pretty soon it's going to be like the matrix and AI is just going to harvest human bodies for their needs lol.

Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com · 6 pts · 223d (3 replies)

Wonder what the cooling coefficient of blood plasma is?

Alloi@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 222d (1 reply)

its not great, it would work somewhat well as a thermal buffer, but everything that makes it plasma would be a detriment to a closed system like this. corrosion, rot, gunk clogging the loop. not the best, and by the time you processed the plasma to be somewhat below onpar with other options, it would already be too expensive.

Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com · 6 pts · 222d

It was more rhetorical... but thanks for the analytical breakdown!

jaybone@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 222d

Maybe we can all just piss on their machines.

wewbull@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 222d

...but instead of tubes down our throats...

zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -1 pts · 222d

Don’t worry, only the US is affected by this. Move along.

happyfullfridge@lemmy.ml · -3 pts · 223d

wait till y'all head about animal agriculture