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AI data centers used a world’s supply of bottled water in just one year (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 6 days ago by falseWhite@lemmy.world to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world

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In a study published on Monday by the peer-reviewed journal Patterns, data scientist Alex de Vries-Gao estimated the carbon emissions from electricity used by AI at between 33 million and 80 million metric tons.

That higher figure would put it above last year's totals for Chile (78m tons), Czechia (78m tons), Romania (71m tons), and New York City (48m tons, including both CO2 and other greenhouse gases).

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[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Sewer pipes wouldn't work. Cooling systems use thin veins to exchange heat. Making the veins larger would make it less effective and require epic amounts of water that is wasted to do the job. The blockage and buildup problems will still remain.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago

I wasn't suggesting they use sewer pipes, I'm just saying that if sewer pipes can exist, then I'm pretty sure they can make pipes that would work for this.