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

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• xxce2AAb@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Please stop, you maniacs.

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• LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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• lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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  • BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      1 million bottles per minute

      Let that sink in

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      so that’s… seven percent?

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    • Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      shocking that nobody tries to ban this

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  • Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Bottled water is easy to quantify

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  • Kuori@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    smh should have used football fields

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  • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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• culpritus@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Capitalism was the paperclip maximizer all along?

  astronaut-2 astronaut-1

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• archonet@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  H20?

  That sounds… particularly explosive.

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  • fox@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Meh, just a really light calcium atom

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• misk@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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  • Bakkoda@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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• Thoath@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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• vogi@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Image

  Makes me wonder how emmet brown would feel about this.

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• winkly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Now we’re really cooking 🧑‍🍳

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• elevenbones@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  tf is H 20?

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