← Back to context

Comment by pier25

7 hours ago

Just 30 mins from where I live data centers are having an impact on water used for farming.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/sep/25/m...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2ngz7ep1eo

If only we could do water-intensive activities in areas where water is abundant and then ship the resulting products to where they are needed...

In a far science fiction future, I could e.g. imagine connecting LLM inference data centers to a global data network instead of always having to drive up to them to ask my prompts.