• daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      That’s nothing compared with intensive irrigation.

      Having a diet proper to your region has a massively bigger impact on water than some cooling.

      Also not every place on earth have fresh water issues. Some places have it some are pretty ok. Not using water in a place where it’s plenty does nothing for people in a place where there is scarcity of fresh water.

      I shall know as my country is pretty dry. Supercomputers, as the one used for our national AI, had had not visible impact on water supply.

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        You read all three of those links in four minutes?

        Also, irrigation creates food, which people need to survive, while AI creates nothing that people need to survive, so that’s a terrible comparison.

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          I’m already familiarized on industrial and computer usage of water. As I said, very little impact.

          Not all food is needed to survive. Any vegan would probably give a better argument on this than me. But choice of food it’s important. And choosing one food over another it’s not a matter of survival but a matter of joy, a tertiary necessity.

          Not to sound as a boomer, but if this is such a big worry for you better action may be stop eating avocados in a place where avocados don’t naturally grow.

          As I said, I live in a pretty dry place, where water cuts because of scarcity are common. Our very few super computers have not an impact on it. And supercomputers on china certainly are 100% irrelevant to our water scarcity issue.