{"id":51262,"date":"2026-06-02T22:08:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=51262"},"modified":"2026-06-03T22:08:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:08:25","slug":"anytime-i-read-about-the-environmental-effects-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=51262","title":{"rendered":"Anytime I read about the environmental effects of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I think about this snippet from the epilogue of The Big Short<\/em> detailing Michael Burry\u2019s lone investing focus.\u00a0 Back in 2015 when the film was released, I didn\u2019t really think about what was really implied by Burry\u2019s decision to start betting on water, but I could imagine reasons similar to what happened in Flint, Michigan, or the fact that in spite of the world being like 90% water, I don\u2019t imagine even close to a tenth of that is drinkable water, and clean water is probably going to be a bigger commodity in the future than it really sounds like it should be.<\/span><\/p>\n

But with all the chatter about the growth of AI, and how a single ChatGPT query results in the consumption of energy that is capable of requiring like a gallon of water to cool down some servers in a data center in the middle of bumfuck flyover America, this is what makes me wonder if Burry knew something was on the horizon or something a decade ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

Either way, every time something comes out about the environmental ravaging AI is capable of, this is the image that comes directly to mind, and I find myself thinking about this more and more as AI is blabbed about more and moar.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think about this snippet from the epilogue of The Big Short detailing Michael Burry\u2019s lone investing focus.\u00a0 Back in 2015 when the film was released, I didn\u2019t really think about what was really implied by Burry\u2019s decision to start betting on water, but I could imagine reasons similar to what happened in Flint, Michigan, … Continue reading Anytime I read about the environmental effects of AI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[176,79,100,45,191,41,83,25,190,49],"class_list":["post-51262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-murica","tag-cashmoney","tag-comparison","tag-fail","tag-greed","tag-movies","tag-observations","tag-technology","tag-white-people","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51264,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51262\/revisions\/51264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}