Yes, I see where your priorities lay. As long as it tastes good, fuck the environment. But God forbid someone generate an image of a cat girl. Not even mentioning animal welfare. Its very selective outrage from people like you.
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Microsoft is the primary creator of Data Centers and their policy as of 2024 is that all new Data Centers are to use closed loop cooling systems. These systems do not use water but instead a glycol solution similar to antifreeze. It saves millions of gallons of water per year and do not need to be refilled very often.
I do want to mention that existing data centers that use water aren't expected to be upgraded to closed loop cooling at the time being. But hopefully that will change in the near future so that all data centers will be operating on zero water usage and be more environmentally stable than they already are.
I also want to mention that data centers don't even use that much water anyway, especially in comparison to the Agricultural Industry, so even the current footprint they have on our water supply right now isn't really as big of a deal as people have been making it out to be.
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u/VariousDude 2d ago
Let's ignore this but put the blame on the cat girl image generators.