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protocolturetoday at 7:03 AM0 repliesview on HN

>to keep an eye on the growth trend

I will be, mostly to add it to the bucket of trends that didn't continue forever as predicted.

>The question of how much societal resource information services can plausibly consume over a long term is an interesting one.

I dont know if biology is a really good model?

>You're arguing against points I'm not making.

No I think I am right on the money.

Small thing increases exponentially compounding every other week, for 2 weeks. Still a small thing.

Small thing increases exponentially for a decade. Now a big thing.

Datacenters increasing at the current rate for a couple more years before hitting several very hard walls. Still a small thing.

If they go from 24 times less water consumption than golf courses as far as 15 times less water consumption than golf courses I would be surprised.