Wow, just a quick check .... it appears you are correct.

  Golf: ~531 billion gal/year
  Data centers: ~17 billion gal/year
  Golf ≈ 31× as much

  Golf: ~500–531B gallons
  Data centers including electricity: ~228B gallons

I’m not commenting on whether generative AI is especially resource-wasteful or not, but a lot of people online seem to have newly discovered the existence of data centers.

Remind me what golf club comes close to the energy consumption of a data center?

Or do you literally mean the entire sport of golf vs 1 data center?

Okay, but firstly golf is probably the most useless sport ever and secondly there is more than one AI datacenter.

Yes, some people have fun, but most of the "fun" nowadays is just endless mindless consumption.

I just ignore most of these people. 99.9% of the time they're losers who peddle misinformation.