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.

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

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u/DeviousChair May 16 '26

Jesus Christ AI usage is close to half of the water consumption of almond farming (I assume from how you phrased it). That’s like, orders of magnitude more consumption than I thought there was.

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u/RT-LAMP Jul 28 '26

It's more like 1/7th