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Critics Furious Microsoft Is Training AI by Sucking Up Water During Drought (futurism.com)
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[–] Veltoss@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah it's a "this is cheaper and we're greedy" problem but people will add this to their AI fearmongering and hating circlejerks.

Apparently they're looking into nuclear reactors for this which doesn't waste as much water from what I understand.