AI Will Consume as Much Water as a Billion People By 2030, UN Report Estimates
9 hours ago by Viking_Hippie to c/aboringdystopia
The majority are low volatility and stay in the plumping, and a certain amount of the water that goes through the evaporators (a little under a tenth generally, I think) is flushed through (usually into the local water treatment system) with as a more concentrated solution. Some PFAS are volatile enough to ride the water vapor up and eventually fallout again.
Edit: I forgot, some types still legal in the US are volatile enough to not fallout, and instead become strong greenhouse gases.
Most recently, the EESI, but The Guardian started reporting on it last year.
Wait what, why PFAS? Cooling towers evaporate the water, no?
I swear to god, the powers that be are legitimately trying to fucking kickstart ecoterrorism
Is this a conversion of or without the power costs?
The water footprint comes from cooling and powering the data centers, and the land footprint comes from the energy infrastructure and supply chains that go into building and running them.
Addressing AI’s environmental impact won’t be as straightforward as transitioning to greener sources of power, the report warns. Ditching coal in favor of bioenergy could slash carbon emissions associated with electricity costs by 70 percent, but cause the water footprint to surge by 30 times, and the land footprint by 100 times.
Assuming this is what you are asking, the water consumption (and land footprint) is calculated from all power use.
they’ll go bankrupt before then
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And all of it will be laced with PFAS forever.
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