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You can always tell an AI apologist by how they latch onto the water thing and ignore the electricity, air pollution, noise pollution, etc.

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The electricity, air pollution and noise pollution are all from natural gas. Data centers aren’t loud, on site temporary natural gas turbines are. We can instead install solar and batteries and none of these will be issues. We already grow corn for fuel at 1/10th the land efficiency of solar so it’s not like we don’t have the land for it

I feel like there's a huge political/economic opportunity in the US simply from getting government to shift subsidies from corn/ethanol to solar. Of course you also have to get buy-in from the farmers, but.

I'm not talking about hypothetical possible futures in which people do the right thing. The datacenters that are being built right now and which are in operation right now use single-stage gas turbines, last I checked.

HVAC equipment can also cause a lot of noise pollution all on its own.

You could, you know, stop spreading deception about water usage if it bothers you so much when people call out deception about water usage.

At this point, I almost consider it trolling to bring it up: purposely throw in something incredibly stupid, and then throw a hissy fit when predictably called out on it.

I, personally, do not bring up the water thing. So you're talking to the wrong person here.

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