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The water math on AI is the most misunderstood statistic in tech, so let's actually run it.
A ChatGPT query uses about 0.3 mL of water for cooling, per OpenAI's own disclosure. The harshest academic estimate, which also counts the water consumed by the power plants feeding the servers, lands at 10 to 25 mL. Call it half a tablespoon at the absolute worst case.
Now the comparisons. One hamburger takes roughly 2,500 liters of water to produce. That single burger equals somewhere between 100,000 and 8 million ChatGPT queries depending on whose estimate you trust. A pair of jeans cost 7,500 liters before it reached your closet. One toilet flush is 6 liters, or about 20,000 queries. US golf courses pour out around 1.5 billion gallons every day, dwarfing the direct cooling water of every data center in the country.
So why does the robot demanding a thousand glasses of water feel true? Because the totals sound enormous and nobody does the division. "Data centers consumed billions of gallons" is accurate and terrifying right up until you divide billions of gallons by trillions of queries and get a number smaller than the drop left in your glass when you think it's empty.
The legitimate water story is local. A big facility sited in a drought-stressed basin can strain that specific community, which is why Chile blocked one. That's a siting problem, solvable with policy and closed-loop cooling.
The cartoon will outlive the correction anyway. Per-unit math never beats a thirsty robot at the foot of the bed.
@AZgtfoomw@truthache68 Oh wait so you don’t understand that it would locally affect the water, that’s everyone’s point that it was even cool enough to the touch for people to touch it on the exterior yet it was 5000° a few seconds before it landed.
@sina_mirzaei@truthache68 According to the mission, it was a double that temperature and it’s the fact that the water does not react to the temperature because the capsule in its totality was not made of that material so the exterior of the couple should’ve been at least a few hundred degrees.
@OliApplin@TedLogan1010 Countless people would want that so you’re so beyond wrong. All the pictures they published were heavily edited. And originally the mission was going to be unmanned and it was because you can see the escape pods being used when they blackout the video you’re welcome to look into
@MotherClukr@TedLogan1010 You’re right nobody’s actually answering the question and it is something people have asked for the fact that actually only one satellite takes pictures of the Earth and that’s the only actual proof of pictures of the Earth is also a problem.
THIS IS SCARY!!
Someone just open-sourced software that can track you through walls using only WiFi.
> It shows your exact body position in real time.
> No cameras. No devices. No sensors.
> Just your home router.
> It’s completely open source.
A Chinese student built an interesting app using vibe coding that visualizes nearly 5,000 artifacts in the British Museum from 99 countries around the world.
The app shows:
• When these artifacts arrived
• Which country they came from
• And how the distribution would look if all artifacts were returned to their countries of origin.
I’ve never heard about reports of the government experimenting with force feeding ticks bio weapons and releasing them in Virginia and Montana back in the 60’s.
Learn something every day.
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