For example, in the US, which do you think uses more water: Golf Courses or Data Centers?
a) Gold Courses use twice as much water as Data Centers
b) About the same
c) Data Centers use twice as much water as Gold Courses
The answer is "None of the above": "Golf courses in the U.S. use around 500 billion gallons annually of water to irrigate their turf [snip] data centers consume [snip] 17 billion gallons, or maybe around 10x that if we include water use from energy generation"
Do you think a Google search or a Gemini query produces more carbon?
> Google had estimated that a single web search query produces 0.2 grams of CO2 emissions. [snip] the median Gemini LLM app query produces a surprisingly low 0.03 grams of CO2 emissions), and uses less energy than watching 9 seconds of television
alt Hacker News
I think Andrew Ng wrote a great piece on this.
For example, in the US, which do you think uses more water: Golf Courses or Data Centers?
The answer is "None of the above": "Golf courses in the U.S. use around 500 billion gallons annually of water to irrigate their turf [snip] data centers consume [snip] 17 billion gallons, or maybe around 10x that if we include water use from energy generation"Do you think a Google search or a Gemini query produces more carbon?
> Google had estimated that a single web search query produces 0.2 grams of CO2 emissions. [snip] the median Gemini LLM app query produces a surprisingly low 0.03 grams of CO2 emissions), and uses less energy than watching 9 seconds of television
https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-336/