The talk around AI and the environment almost always circles back to water and energy use, especially how much data centers need to run big models. Viral headlines love grabbing wild comparisons, like a single AI query “drinking” a bottle of water or data centers gulping the same electricity as a whole city. It sounds scary, but a lot of that framing misses the bigger context, using resources isn’t inherently bad. Every major technological leap, from farming to factories to cloud apps, depends on big energy and water flows. The question shouldn’t be whether resources are used, it should be whether that use creates pollution, waste, or long-term shortages.
Part of why public perception went sideways in 2025 was a hugely influential book called Empire of AI. It was widely reviewed by major outlets and became a cornerstone of the narrative about AI’s environmental footprint. But one of its most talked-about claims, that a proposed data center in Chile would use more than a thousand times as much water as a nearby town, turned out to be based on a simple mix-up of units. Independent analysts showed the real number was far lower, closer to a fraction of the town’s total water use, not a thousand-fold multiple. That error alone amplified the perception that AI was an unprecedented water hog. The author acknowledged the mistake and said corrections are coming in future editions, but by then the idea had already shaped a lot of public opinion and headlines.
Once you dig past that noise, the real story looks a lot more nuanced. Yes, AI data centers use significant energy and need cooling, and water is part of that cooling. But most of the water isn’t “lost”, it circulates or is returned. Most water used onsite is a tiny slice compared with agriculture, food production, or textiles. The bigger environmental concerns are about how energy is generated, where data centers are built, and how waste is managed. When we focus on accurate numbers and smart infrastructure choices instead of clickbait comparisons, we can talk about AI’s environmental footprint in a way that actually matters, without turning every headline into a crisis story.
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pelo departamento medico bisonho
pela montagem do elenco
pela demissão e contratação de treinadores
por parte da atual divida
você é horrível e se fosse realmente são-paulino sairia hoje do clube
O mais frustrante é saber que, por mais protestos que existam contra Casares e Belmonte, nada vai mudar. O SPFC está nas mãos de dirigentes que enxergam a torcida não como parceira, mas como inimiga — útil apenas para sustentar o brinquedo deles.