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A Boring Dystopia
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There is no simple answer to how much that amount of water actually is since different uses have different impacts. E.g. irrigation is fundamentally different from evaporative cooling. And the amount of water consumed by a household directly is miniscule compared to the goods and services that take water to provide.
If you do napkin math you will be outraged.
E.g. lawn irrigation can take up enormous amounts of water, too, with much lower benefit. Asking people to conserve water that way is probably better than shutting down data centers which do in fact render a useful service.
Somebody else provided that napkin math and it had the opposite effect. Now I'm outraged how much water the average US household uses.
The useful service of taking people's clothes off online.
Honestly, if I thought that it would help our leaders to shift focus away from the underaged human beings, I'd be more supportive.
I worry that this will work more as an enticement, especially with their love of gambling.
You can do legitimately useful things with computers and ai, even.
You being nasty is your own problem.