Comment by andsoitis
9 hours ago
> how AI threatens natural resources for billions.
The article rests on the claim that water usage of data centers on continent X threaten water availability for humans on continent Y.
I hope you can see how self-evidently illogical that is. The article tries to bend logic into a narrative it is trying to push.
> This was from United Nations and it was flagged.
Indeed! It exposes a level of lack of rigor and critical thinking which is astounding - this is meant to be an organization that thinks clearly, which it clearly does not.
What do you think people on continent x are going to do if there is water on continent y but not continent x…?
Since you think it's so obvious, please elaborate on what those people on continent x will do
Go to the continent with more water so they can live in a place with more water (as they can't bring the water back - it's too big and too heavy).
The people in continent Y are likely to use extreme violence to stop this from happening, like we see today in the Mediterranean sea where thousands of people are murdered every year.
Make their problem everyone else’s problem.
desalinate.
It is still surprising that it was flagged. I’d have read it if it appeared — and the comments would be nice to read.