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Alt Text: The cartoon illustrates the problem of water use in the AI age: a farmer's child and his mother are pumping a little water from a well for their daily use. Two knights in armor, transporting a large, spherical water container on wheels, come by and say, "The King wishes to make more avatars of himself as a Ghibli character."
In the background, a castle sits enthroned on a hill. The cartoon illustrates the excessive water consumption required for AI model queries.

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[–] metallic_substance@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Nice pre-counter on the shit ass argument of self hosting. Large scale is 100% of the problem

[–] LillaApan@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago

If everybody would self host and run their machines... Would that be efficient? Would use a fuckton of energy as well, and I doubt it's all solar. Plus, the models they use base on work done before (energy used) unless all training is done at home.... Unlikely

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world -1 points 3 days ago

No I'm not understanding how it's a problem. How does an AI datacenter "consume" water? Where does it go?