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News@lemmy.worldbyfloofloof@lemmy.ca
4 months

Data centers consumed 264B gallons of water as drought hits nearly 63% of US

www.barchart.com English

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/1154831

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    • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
      4 months

      Global beef production used approximately 264 trillion gallons. Quite literally 1000x more water.

      For a single type of food.

      Water for irrigation of peoples lawns is just under 3 trillion liters a year in the US, about 10x as much.

      Where are the protests against that?

      Nowhere, because people are sheep and can’t use their critical thinking skills.

      This is like watching people yell at their kids to turn off the light in their room(which is an led) while leaving the AC running at home while they run out to the grocery store 10 miles away in a 7 seat SUV.

      Missing the forest for the trees. The lot of you.

        • moustachio@lemmy.world
          4 months

          AI apologists in the wild are so weird.

          LLMs in current form are protested because they’re a worthless “technology” that also wastes a fuck ton of resources so the ruling class can do IP theft at scale.

            • Sniatch@feddit.org
              4 months

              Meat apoligists are also weird, just saying. Meat Production is way worse than AI. Lots of animals are sufferint and it’s very bad for the enviornment.

                • no_name_dev_from_hell@programming.dev
                  4 months

                  Yeah let’s get rid of meat and agriculture and eat ai tokens

                    • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml
                      4 months

                      No, let’s get rid of ai and meat and eat more sustainable foods.

                        • no_name_dev_from_hell@programming.dev
                          4 months

                          Global South doesn’t eat enough meat. Let’s get rid of first worlders being fat and lazy, and distribute the food to all countries equally, then talk about meat consumption.

                            • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml
                              4 months

                              What do you mean by “eat enough meat”? Humans don’t have a biological need to eat meat, so by definition technically everyone has “enough” meat. If you just mean in terms of fairness then sure, the global south should get a bigger share of resources, that’s clear.

                                • no_name_dev_from_hell@programming.dev
                                  4 months

                                  How the fuck can we get enough protein without eating enough meat? People in global south do not only suffer from calorie deficiency but also protein deficiency, which is related to meat (red or white) and dairy usage.

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