Malaysia wants to become a regional hub for AI & data centres. A data centre can use up to 25.5 million tonnes of water annually. This amount can support 300,000 people every single day.
Nothing can replace our freshwater ecosystems once they are destroyed & drained.
at the lab i acidentally dropped a reagent that costs more than me, my entire family tree, my neighborhood and possibly my entire state combined. it didnt break. thankfully. but for one moment i felt the fear of God that only an illiterate rural medieval peasant would feel
recently ppl have been asking me a lot of questions about why ai is so bad for the environment if its just water and i have learned that most people think the issue is solely water related so i wanted to talk briefly here about the actual issues. hold on for me to type all this.