Nachdem ich ein Video von Hank Green gesehen hatte, wollte ich einen direkten Vergleich des Wasserverbrauchs, von US-Rechenzentren mit bewässertem Mais. Also habe ich alles in die gleichen Einheiten umgerechnet und die Lücke eingezeichnet.
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Tools used: [Energent.AI](http://Energent.AI)
Sources:
[https://www.bluefieldresearch.com/data-center-water-secrecy-hurts-communities-and-the-industry-itself/](https://www.bluefieldresearch.com/data-center-water-secrecy-hurts-communities-and-the-industry-itself/)
[https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-practices-management/irrigation-water-use](https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-practices-management/irrigation-water-use)
[https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/AgCensus/2022/Online_Resources/Farm_and_Ranch_Irrigation_Survey/fris_2_039_039.pdf](https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/AgCensus/2022/Online_Resources/Farm_and_Ranch_Irrigation_Survey/fris_2_039_039.pdf)
Do you have access to the economic return/impact for each of these? That would be interesting to plot as a second axis.
Well that settles it, we’re having data center bread with our chili from now on!
I immediately wondered if this was in response to the Hank Green video.
The „detail“ chart reducing precision really confused me for a minute there
More butter on my popped data center please!
I wonder how it compares to almond water usage, just out of curiosity.
But corn provides obesity by injecting corn sugar into everything with government subsidy!
Oh, you actually meant corn.
I thought… the bigger portion is the data centers for „corn“.
bullshit in, bullshit out. unlike corn, datacenters are really bad at using rain water.
This whole argument is absurd, two things can be true and both can be problems worth addressing. Water use in chip manufacturing is a major challenge, water use in power plants requires significant attention and planning, water use in cooling can be significant and potentially change the ecology of the reservoir when the water temperature changes. Evaporative losses in reservoirs are not all the same and each location needs to account for their circumstances.
We also grow an excessive amount of corn that is inefficiently used for ethanol and animal feed. Both are problems that should be and are actively being addressed. Saying that one isn’t a problem because the other should be solved is counter productive.
Corn feeds people, or it feeds animals that feed people. It might even be turned into fuel.
Some datacenters provide critical services and help drive innovation. The datacenters that are going up now? They feed AI shenanigans and crypto BS. There is a LOT of compute in the world, and most of the new stuff is going to foolish endeavors.
I’m a server guy.. I like servers, and I like working on them. I like corn more.
Corn is incredibly inefficient yes. That doesn’t make data centers good uses of water. They are *less* water hungry but comparing them directly gallon to gallon isn’t a fair comparison since they aren’t on anywhere near the same scale. Comparing by acreage would be more effective.
Also, I can’t say I like the ai being used to make a graph but appreciate the disclaimer so I can take a spoonful of salt.