Alt Text: The cartoon illustrates the problem of water use in the AI age: a farmer’s child and his mother are pumping a little water from a well for their daily use. Two knights in armor, transporting a large, spherical water container on wheels, come by and say, “The King wishes to make more avatars of himself as a Ghibli character.”
In the background, a castle sits enthroned on a hill. The cartoon illustrates the excessive water consumption required for AI model queries.
AI data centers use a fuckton of water. And before you say self host, this comic is directed at the other 99.9% of consumers.
Nice pre-counter on the shit ass argument of self hosting. Large scale is 100% of the problem
If everybody would self host and run their machines… Would that be efficient? Would use a fuckton of energy as well, and I doubt it’s all solar. Plus, the models they use base on work done before (energy used) unless all training is done at home… Unlikely
No I’m not understanding how it’s a problem. How does an AI datacenter “consume” water? Where does it go?
I understand they use water in a closed loop for cooling, but… that’s a closed loop. It isn’t consuming water. Where did you get the idea that it was?
Let’s start with this - where do you think the heat goes?