Do they not teach the water cycle in schools anymore 🥀

Desalination plants around the world produce varying amounts of fresh water daily, with some of the largest facilities producing more than 50 million gallons per day.

There are approximately 16,000 to 23,000 operational desalination plants worldwide.

These plants collectively produce approximately 95 million cubic meters (about 25billion gallons) of desalinated water daily.

Approximately 4,300 billion gallons of freshwater falls as rain over the continental United States each day according to the United States Geological Survey.

A human being need approximately 2-3 liters of drinking water perday. That's 5,547,613,100 (5.5billion) gallons of drink water to supply the whole planets of its drink water needs for 7billion people.

While yes, the drinkable water is a very small percentage of the total water... but that mainly because simply how much oeacan water there actually is.

Some sources suggest that a typical data center can use around 300,000 gallons of water per day for cooling. With approximately 6100 publicly known AI data centers, that 1,830,000,000 (1.8 billion) gallons.

So the combination total need of drinking water & AI data cooling it 7.3 billion gallons per day, compared to the world's 25billion gallons in desalinated water produced daily & 4300 billion gallons that falls on the continental US daily (sustainability more falls on the rest of the words).

Good thing the polar ice caps are melting to help! /s

Did you not listen to what you said?

She explicitly made a distinction between water in general and water that you can drink

Wait do you think because the oceans exist that humans can't run out of drinking water when we use it in industry?

is this my uncle's Facebook page?

Does no one know about the impending water wars?

Do you really think evaporation and rainfall create drinkable water? Theres a little more to it than that and no that will not replenish at a rate that competes with this shit. These data centers are literally going to kill us. But keep thinking otherwise. If you can use reddit I imagine you are young enough that you'll get to find out first hand.

reeeeeeeeeeee reeeeeeeeee reeeeeeeeee reeeeeeeeeeeeee

Do they not teach that rainwater isn't safe to drink in schools anymore 🥀

Ask AI how to save water, problem solved

Welp, back to the drawing boards, boys