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Hyasynth Hyde
@notepadchick.bsky.social
Medical student (class of 2027) trying to be one of the good ones.
Your top source for pseudo-probing questions, weakly cursed takes, off-topic replies, and out-of-pocket analogies. Toxic like your scented candles. She/her works but I prefer "you"
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Yeah, no. The "water" is being used by being heated, and it's then cooled and reused. The water "usage" required to completely train Google's AI program is the same as that used for two Americans' average annual beef consumption. Society's got 99 problems with AI but this shouldn't be one
I am begging for just one of these articles to use the word "acre-foot" or break out what fraction of water supplies go to agriculture www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental costs of using AI chatbots
AI needs a lot of electricity and water to stay cool in data centers. We break down the toll prompt-by-prompt to show the scale of AI’s environmental needs.
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Hyasynth Hyde
@notepadchick.bsky.social
Medical student (class of 2027) trying to be one of the good ones.
Your top source for pseudo-probing questions, weakly cursed takes, off-topic replies, and out-of-pocket analogies. Toxic like your scented candles. She/her works but I prefer "you"
209 followers310 following1.7k posts