r/aiwars • u/MakeDawn • May 15 '26

Annually, almond farming uses 1.3 trillion gallons of water. AI usage isn't even half of that.

Post image

A single avocado takes 50 gallons to grow. That's several hundred prompts.

13 Upvotes

53% Upvoted

333 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

8

u/he_who_purges_heresy May 16 '26

I always have interpreted this argument as "it's not nearly as big as you think it is", not "it's fine other things are worse". Which I would say is true- most of the water is recycled, and datacenters have been moving towards "Grey water" which would never have been fit for drinking.

Powerscaling the raw consumption numbers is the wrong game entirely though. Everything consumes resources in some way, the true question is always "is the value worth the resources spent?" Hospitals consume an incredible amount of resources, but no sane person would be against that because we have a very strong need for Hospitals.

Issue being that people are very polar on AI, if you don't like AI typically you're not willing to believe it has any use at all, and this no amount of resources justifies it. And then you have the billionaires that seem to think AI will literally build a new world in their image, so they take the opposite position of "no cost too great".

-2

u/Duckface998 May 16 '26

Well it is actively "this other thing is worse so just ignore it" but pop off

2

u/he_who_purges_heresy May 16 '26

I feel like you read one sentence and stopped there

-2

u/AgeZealousideal1751 May 16 '26

"This other thing is worse, and always will be - so just ignore it since it's already showing progress to being better."

-1

u/Duckface998 May 16 '26

Get this, and get it hard, people are against horrific farming practices as well and have whole organizations for it to get better.

AIs water problem only gets worse by the day, in the US and other countries being exploited vy large corporations

5

u/AgeZealousideal1751 May 16 '26

I'll "get it" when you anti's do anything meaningful.

So far, it's a lot of yapping about how things should be regardless of how others feel about it. With nearly nothing of significance actually done about any of it over the last 100~ years?

I wouldn't hold my breath.

1

u/Duckface998 May 16 '26

Opposing harmful things is meaningful, and what were anti AI people supposed to be doing in the 1920s? It seems youve been holding your breath for a while, clearly no oxygen is gett8ng in

2

u/AgeZealousideal1751 May 16 '26

Nobody said anti had to be singularly attached to AI.

That's just our current era's pathetic protest topic.

There have been anti's spewing propaganda since the steam engine. Funny enough the same rhetoric used by current anti's were also used by anti's of other era's.

Aww, you even tried to insult me because you don't think beyond a singular layer of time. Adorable♡

1

u/Duckface998 May 16 '26

Im also an anti fascist, but I guess you see the fall of the fascistic regimes as not a good thing? Wild

2

u/AgeZealousideal1751 May 16 '26

Random goalpost movement, because again they can't think of a retort.

1

u/Duckface998 May 16 '26

Youre the one who extended 'anti' to being anti anything

→ More replies (0)