> the 29 million gallons were consumed during temporary construction activities, including concrete work, dust control, and site preparation

Misleading title

Is there a AI data center construction process that doesn't involve these costs?

Is there a large scale construction project that doesn’t incur these costs? Is the AI data center substantially worse on these metrics that other comparable projects? Or are we talking about it only because it’s AI-related?

> Or are we talking about it only because it’s AI-related?

We're absolutely only talking about it because it's AI.

From about 5 minutes of digging, I found the below which perhaps helps to put the 29m gallons in context.

> The Fayette County Water System has a total production capacity of 22.8 million gallons per day (MGD).

Source: https://fayettega.org/doing-business/global-access-infrastru...

So...keeping things simple and using 30d months:

Using 29M gallons over 15 months = 29,000,000 / (15 * 30) = 64,444 gallons per day avg

Based on 22.8m daily production capacity that's less than 0.3% of the total production capacity per day.

(Happy to be corrected if my napkin maths is wrong / i'm missing something here!)

I think it's important to know the total costs environmentally for these outfits

But what criteria do we use to judge whether these numbers are too high or too low? How do they compare to other construction projects of this size?

The title doesn't mention a time horizon it states what was used which it was. This is not misleading.

No they're not. Using GPS and blinding following what it says is "wholesale giving over your navigation to GPS". Writing things down is "wholesale giving over your memory to paper".

AI chatbots do not have agency, they are not actively trying to take over your thinking. People can prompt them to do their thinking for them, or they can prompt to get examples and help with understanding.

Are you writing a book with GPS? Are you creating a program with GPS? Are you creating music with GPS?

You need to think to do this, you don't need to with AI.

Are you writing a book without an editor? Are you writing a book without spellcheck?

It’s nice to comment, it’s be great to engage with the actual point I made: if the AI write the whole book for you it’s because you asked it to. You can just as well ask it to clean up the prose, or look for inconsistencies, or find flaws in the arguments.

That’s the nirvana fallacy. And it gets used VERY often against renewables.

Were’s the AI rewrite when you need it.

I don’t see irony there. We’re locked into CUDA due to past decisions. And in new decisions we don’t want to repeat that mistake.

Except that robot probably costs more than the prevent value of all clothes I’ll ever buy.

I hear you. I also don't buy clothes unless really really needed. But I am hoping that if I do buy a Robot like that, it will do other things as well and not just folding laundry :)

And just like that, the reason to use Apple Maps is gone.

Really sad to see. The last thing I want when I'm trying to figure out how to get somewhere is a bunch of sponsored pins and results, slowing me down and giving my brain more garbage to process.

That screenshot in the link is still vastly better than Google Maps: a generic search for "restaurants" may feature a clearly marked sponsored restaurant. There's a long ways to go until they get to Google or Yelp's level. But we all know they'll get there soon enough, copying Google's "innovations" as they go.

Yup, Google Maps is technically superior even as Apple Maps has done tremendous catch-up through the years. But that didn't matter when Apple was good enough and didn't put ads in your face like Google.

To say nothing of the difference in number of store listings and their accuracy.

for restaurants, i scraped my city's health inspection dataset and mapped it https://github.com/jareklupinski/dash-nyc

the only thing im missing now are actual speakeasy's and popups

Are you going to use OSMAND? Its navigation functionality needs a lot of work.

Smokable tobacco is not seen as cool to nearly the same degree as it once was. Vapes and zyns meanwhile are all the rage with young people where they are available.

I do think that getting rid of the vapes and Zyns is an improvement for people’s health. The idea that vapes can be used to switch of tobacco is basically pro-vape propaganda at this point; we know that far more people are using nicotine thanks to these products, people who would otherwise not use it at all.

> The idea that vapes can be used to switch of tobacco is basically pro-vape propaganda at this point

It worked for me, and it's in large part because while vapes contain nicotine, they don't contain the MAOIs that cigarettes do. MAOIs make the nicotine significantly more addictive. Subjectively, cigarettes were night and day different in how habit-forming they were. The vapes are a step down and much easier to quit.

In terms of health, it's ridiculous: we know for a fact that tobacco smoke contains freaking Polonium-210 and Lead-210, extremely nasty radioactive isotopes. These aren't in vapes. These alone should be the end of the argument for whether smokable tobacco should be sold on an industrial scale for human consumption.

Nicotine by itself isn't the four alarm fire for public health that smoking tobacco is. If we're going to go full nanny state and ban non-smoked nicotine, then we may as well ban caffeine and alcohol. Realistically, however, the authoritarian move on this isn't justified by the risk level.

Do you have proof for this?

No they don't it's just a smear campaign because the US tech companys are freaking out

This is funny because it is an unfounded claim replying to the request for proof.

I can show you my git tree where GLM4.5 deleted my whole test suite and my session docs where it invented new github cli commands. Are you willing to show us where you saw me taking money from any US tech company?

There are similar unfounded complaints about US companies. It's just what happens with a product that doesn't work 100% of the time even under ideal conditions. Some people are bound to get unlucky but blame it on deliberate action rather than random chance.

If they have electricity they can charge from a regular power outlet.

A large portion of the population is well served by 120V charging and don’t need more than that. And for what it’s worth, parts of Brazil also run on 220V, so they’re even more set in that regard.

parts? theres different voltage residential supply in different parts of the country? wild.

Japan has different frequencies. At least voltage is easier to go between.