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Fresh water is a finite resource. It replenishes extremely slowly in certain forms. Like ground water. Lakes and rivers can run dry if you pull too much from th
by iteria 9mo ago
Fresh water is a finite resource. It replenishes extremely slowly in certain forms. Like ground water. Lakes and rivers can run dry if you pull too much from them, see: Iran. AI data centers are making the problem of overuse worse. We were already pulling too much water in areas. With these data centers, some places that didn't have a problem are starting to.
- rowanG077 9mo agoFresh water is not a finite resource. You can simply make more by taking sea water and pumping in energy. It's not cheap but it's doable.
- abenga 9mo agoIn the short term (while you build your desalinators), and in local water-stressed regions, it very much is.
- dijit 9mo agoperhaps the most hackernews take in this thread. desalination isn’t just expensive, it’s existentially costly in terms of energy consumption, and I don’t see any dyson spheres in production.
- rowanG077 9mo agoWith modern desalination facilities it costs literally on the order of cents per liter. It's an inconvenience at worst in the modern world. It costs approx 3kwh of energy to desalinate one cubic meter of water.
- wpm 9mo agoWhat do you do with all the brine?
- DrusTheAxe 9mo agoMake statues paying homage to the godkings who brought this upon us