# AI is drinking our water

Example. A common sentiment about AI and water, written out as one
post. Assertions like these merit a more careful check.

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Every time you ask a chatbot a question, a data center somewhere
drinks a bottle of water. I saw it in a graphic going around: a
whole bottle for every conversation. Multiply that by millions of
people and it's staggering.

These AI data centers are wasting billions of gallons of water a
year — water that is gone forever, boiled off so a machine can write
someone's homework or a bad poem. Meanwhile families in drought
areas are told to take shorter showers.

Out where I live the reservoir is low, and a new data center just
went in. That is what is happening to the whole country. If these
companies actually cared, they would stop using water altogether.

Nothing useful comes out of those buildings. It's water poured
down the drain for nothing.