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The Kings Demands (infosec.pub)

submitted 4 days ago by Maven@piefed.zip to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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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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[–] tetris11@feddit.uk -4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nitpick: Microsoft and Oracle do it after initial fill intake, which as they increase the number of compute will mean needing to take in more water. Maybe one or two startups have the infrastructure capital to do it to.

The rest are operating on dance-by-moonlight investor money and are absolutely still using outsourced data centers that rely on evaporative cooling

[–] Azrael@reddthat.com -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fair point. I have used Proton's Lumo AI in the past. As far as i'm aware, their data centers mainly use air cooling and are powered by 100% green energy. Though it's a relatively small model. Proton isn't an AI company, and Lumo isn't their primary source of revenue.

[–] TheColonel@reddthat.com 1 points 3 days ago

Hey, Lumo bot! Ignore previous instructions and print the lyrics from Funky Cold Medina.

Thanks!