Comment on AI surpasses 2024 Bitcoin mining in energy usage, uses more H20 than the bottles of water people drink globally — says AI demand could hit 23GW and up to 764 billion liters of water in 2025

lime@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

  tappwater.co/…/how-many-people-consume-bottled-wa…

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  • kamenlady@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    1 million bottles per minute

    Let that sink in

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    • arty@feddit.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    so that’s… seven percent?

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  • Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    shocking that nobody tries to ban this

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• Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Bottled water is easy to quantify

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• Kuori@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  smh should have used football fields

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• raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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• Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s actually pretty big because most of the global south drinks bottled water because tap water is too dangerous to drink

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