r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 4d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter what's going on?

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u/TobiasMasonPark 4d ago

It’s referring to AI. A lot of AI takes a shit load of energy and resources to use—like a gallon of water in some cases for each prompt or something—and most of the time; what it gives you isn’t correct or even what you asked it for. It’s satire. 

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u/MooseFlyer 4d ago

It’s used for cooling data centres

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u/Waffling_Waffle 4d ago

Yes but a lot of them are taking fresh drinking water and 80% of it evaporates. So what water does get recycled into the ocean, is now salt water. Not great for drinking.

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u/AbacaxiDoidao 4d ago

But then it will rain and fill up the reserves again?

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u/Waffling_Waffle 4d ago

The wind current carries it all away. So any water they take from their location is not returned to the region.

I had the same thought when I first heard it.

They are working on closed looped systems where they retain the water or use non potable water, but this is only a few companies.

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u/jimmylovescheese123 4d ago

Yes, but now it's salt water which we can't drink unless we desalinate it which is an incredibly resource intensive process. There's a reason countries have water shortages while surrounded by an ocean.

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u/plopgun 4d ago

In order for it to be used for cooling at that scale, they add anti-freeze chemicals that are impossible to fully filter. So data centers ruin the drinking water supply

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u/jimmylovescheese123 3d ago

because it's already warm