bowser time! yeaahh!!

similarly, the use of resources like rare metals for the CPUs are crimes committed by other industries just as frequently, which will make regulators wary that intervening in the AI industry's mineral exploitation will have huge knock-on effects for other tech industries. it's not a winning argument

--from a broader perspective, the numbers aren't any more worrying than numerous other industries. which means the argument becomes "but it's for tech we dont need, unlike food production" and then you're in a completely different ballpark of easily-subjectified argument

what's difficult about this line of argument is that the water usage is comparatively standard, around the same lines as food production or other industries. it's been more noticable because ai datacenters are easier to throw up in smaller locales where the water use is felt more tangibly, but--

since its my birthday i get one (1) explicitly horny fantasy tweet so:
i wanna be an empty rubber suit of absa rivals of aether that someone puts on and i take control of them and we get to do Real Freaky Stuff 🥴

I WANT TO BE SHINY FOREVER... I WANT TO BE WEIRD FOREVER.......