alt Hacker NewsYes, each data center uses an entire lake of water. The hysterics are pretty sad and baseless.
Have you ever considered that the solution to not having enough power is to generate more power, not curtail progress?
All of these data center should come with their own solar panel arrays and battery packs. Who knows with enough need they might each come with their own small nuclear reactor.
Then, if the Ai bubble is truly a bubble, the giant compute warehouses can be transitioned to power plants and used to store Amazon junk for delivery instead. Wonder what the economic wonkiness looks like when energy is that abundant.