Comment by buellerbueller
6 months ago
Fine, fine: get rid of golf courses too.
As for food production; that might be important? IDK, I am not a silicon "intelligence" so what do I know? Also, I have to "eat". Wouldn't it be a wonderful world if we can just replace ourselves, so that agriculture is unnecessary, and we can devote all that water to AGI.
TIL that the true arc of humanity is to replace itself!
See comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45927268
Given the difference in water usage, more data centers does not mean less water for agriculture in any meaningful way.
If you genuinely want to save water you should celebrate any time an acre of farm land is converted into an acre of data center - all the more water for the other farms!
the value of datacenters is dubious. the value of agriculture, less so.
I make use of AI in my farming operation. Now what?
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Once again, the key thing here is to ask how MUCH value we get per liter of water used.
If data centers and farms used the same amount of water we should absolutely be talking about their comparative value to society, and farms would win.
Farms use thousands of times more water than data centers.
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According to this logic the ideal situation is when there are no farms anymore because then each (out of zero) farm gets maximum water.
Eventually people stop building more data centers as food becomes scarce and expensive, and farms become the hot new thing for the stock market, cereal entrepreneurs become the new celebrities and so on. Elon Husk, cereal magnate.
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