#potable computers

[technoplanet]

[probablyasocialecologist]

The rapid growth of the technology industry and the increasing reliance on cloud computing and artificial intelligence have led to a boom in the construction of data centers across the United States. Electric vehicles, wind and solar energy, and the smart grid are particularly reliant on data centers to optimize energy utilization. These facilities house thousands of servers that require constant cooling to prevent overheating and ensure optimal performance. Unfortunately, many data centers rely on water-intensive cooling systems that consume millions of gallons of potable (“drinking”) water annually. A single data center can consume up to 3 million to 5 million gallons of drinking water per day, enough to supply thousands of households or farms. The increasing use and training of AI models has further exacerbated the water consumption challenges faced by data centers.

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The drinking water used in data centers is often treated with chemicals to prevent corrosion and bacterial growth, rendering it unsuitable for human consumption or agricultural use. This means that not only are data centers consuming large quantities of drinking water, but they are also effectively removing it from the local water cycle. Dry air reduces the risk of corrosion and electrical issues in the sensitive equipment in the data centers. The lack of humidity in water-stressed regions, such as the American Southwest, makes it an attractive location for data centers. This means that the regions in which it is “best” to locate a data center due to its arid environment has the highest marginal cost in terms of water consumption. In the Phoenix area alone, there are 58 data centers. If each data center uses 3 million gallons of water per day for cooling, that equates to over 170 million gallons of drinking water used per day for cooling data centers. This massive consumption of drinking water for data center cooling puts a strain on the already fragile water supply and raises ethical questions about prioritizing the needs of tech giants over the basic needs of residents and agriculture.

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Optimizing renewable power with AI and data centers at the expense of increasing water consumption is not a sustainable solution. Prioritizing one aspect of sustainability, such as reducing carbon emissions, while neglecting another crucial resource like water creates an illusion of sustainability. In reality, this can lead to unsustainable practices that can have severe unintended consequences for individuals and farmers, especially in water-stressed regions.

[etraytin]

Postcards From the Dusty Mountains

Took the kiddo out yesterday with me when I went a-volunteering because he is getting very tired of not having anything to do. You know it's getting bad when a guy misses school and is tired of being on his computer all day. I'm not being sarcastic either, I'm deeply sympathetic to his plight and I wish he could get back to school and the friends he was making and the brand-new boyfriend he's been taking those first cautious romantic steps with. He already had to live through COVID homeschooling for two years, and now this. Ugh. I have heard rumors that they are hoping to open the schools back up on October 21, which means two more weeks closed, but it could be worse. So many places still don't even have power, much less water.

Anyway, I took him with me and we went down to a food distribution in Swannanoa. They got hit very very hard, and we spent a couple hours helping a Chick-Fil-A volunteer team from Atlanta hand out hot chicken sandwiches and bottled water. In normal days I don't have much to do with Chick-Fil-A because I don't like their politics, but when the matter at hand is giving hot food to people who've lost their homes, you put the politics aside. I just wish the rest of the country was able to do the same, because I am extraordinarily tired of people thinking of North Carolina as a "battleground state" when the battle we are fighting right now is to keep people alive as the weather starts to turn cold and the water lines stay broken.

Today was busy because I actually managed to keep a doctor's appointment I have been waiting a month for, which was quite a pleasant surprise! The doctor's office is in Hendersonville, so the fact that they were open for business and that I was able to get there are both things that I might have doubted a week ago. I also had an appointment with a local HVAC outfit about getting a whole-house standby generator installed so that next time we have a power outage, we can at least power the fridges, the well pump, the dehumidifiers and my CPAP, with maybe some left over for laptop charging. The price he quoted me for everything except the propane tank and line was $11,000, which was not exactly unexpected but still a big ol' yikes. The good news is, his company bought several of the right size generators before the storm so they would have an inventory, so I could theoretically have a generator before winter really sets in. Highly tempting.

In the afternoon, kiddo and I went out to do more helping. If nothing else has become more apparent over this week, it's that we were and continue to be so, so lucky. Of all the teachers at my husband's school, we are the _only_ family who are still in our own home with all our utilities back up. We are the only members of our extended family in the area who have power. We are part of a tiny fraction of households in the region who have potable water coming from our taps. Given all of that, we decided that we were going to take my final paycheck from canvassing and put it into a community that was not lucky at all. Our Lowes got restocked big time this week, so I was able to go in and get a propane tank, a gas can, a huge box of contractor bags, a straight rake, a shovel, and a gas-powered chainsaw with two cans of fuel for it. We also raided our own house and took our own three shovels and straight rake, our garden cart, some very cute hiking boots I bought but hadn't worn yet, eight packs of bath wipes and two of our cell phone power banks and drove the whole thing down to Black Mountain.

Black Mountain is very close to Swannanoa and was also hit extremely hard by the storm. We didn't go around touristing, but even on the main roads we took we could see devastation everywhere. Everywhere the water touched was drenched in toxic mud, which has dried over the past two weeks into an awful choking dust that covers everything. It blows on the wind and rises with every passing car. As we drove I took the opportunity to explain how the search and rescue paint marking system works to Kiddo, because their bright green graffiti was on all the half-destroyed houses we were passing.

There's an outdoor music venue in Black Mountain called Silverados that has been turned into a massive distribution center. Hot meals were being passed out in the front, while the rear was a busy hive of organizing and distributing supplies. We went there and dropped off all our items, where they were carted away into an absolutely teeming hub of supplies and volunteers. We asked if they needed any more help today, but they definitely had enough willing hands. I think my dad will laugh because I finally did get the chainsaw he talked me out of, but then gave it away before it even left the box.

With a little time on our hands, we went back up north and visited our favorite grocery store, the one that sells lightly-expired canned and boxed food at greatly reduced prices. We were very happy to see that they'd come through the storm unscathed except for a lack of internet, and stocked up on more of the seemingly endless supply of Old El Paso meal kits that they sell two for a dollar. Cheaper than buying tortillas and taco seasoning, lol! We also visited the local record store, which opened for regular business hours despite the circumstances as well, and bought a couple of records because we want them to stay in business even though times are tough. It was, overall, an extremely successful outing.

Sometimes the world here in our house feels tantalizingly close to normal, an endless weekend where we are just waiting to go back to school and work. But just driving into town and seeing all the places closed for lack of water is enough to destroy that bubble, and driving thirty minutes in any direction is like stepping into a different world. Marshall, Spruce Pine, Swannanoa, Black Mountain, the River Arts District. Dozens more places that I have not seen and probably couldn't even get to if I tried. I'm very afraid for what is about to happen in Florida, for their sake and for ours. Appalachia has a long history of being forgotten about when bad things are happening. I really hope it doesn't go that way again.

[clowntools]

Masterpost of Fundraisers for People From Gaza who have reached out to me

my apologies to everyone on this list for not doing this sooner, and to those i have yet to add. Please, if you have a few dollars to spare, donate to one of more of these campaigns.

@hyamshehabfamile (vetted) - Hyam is trying to support her family of 6, including her husband, two children, and and her parents in law. - Donate Here (GFM)

@majedelsleybe (vetted by association) Majed is only 19 and already has lost his hand in a previous war and two brothers in this one. Before the genocide, he wanted to go to university to be a photographer. - Donate Here (GFM)

@ahmed-ziad (vetted) Ahmed is an engineer trying to support his elderly parents and siblings. Donate Here (GFM)

@safaabed8 and her husband @abedalazeiz (vetted) Safa and her husband Abed are trying to support their 2 children. Donate Here (GFM)

@aya2mohammed (vetted) Mohammed Al-Habil is a father of 3 young children under 8, his wife, and his parents who both have medical conditions. Donate Here (GFM)

@haneenmohamaad (vetted) Haneen and Mohammed both studied Architecture but have had no chance to use their diplomas. They dream of having a baby, but have suffered four miscarraiges since 2021. They ran a supermarket to support Mohammed's elderly parents, but it (and their only source of income) was destroyed in a bombing.As of 10/23/24, they have raised less than 1000€. Donate Here (GFM)

@mohammedaldeeb (vetted- #212) Dr.Mohammed Al-Deeb is a doctor of emergency medicine who worked in Al-Shifa and Al-Aqsa Hospitals. He has evacuated to Egypt, but still needs assistance to support his family of 4 as they rebuild their lives. Donate Here (GFM)

@asmaamajed2 (vetted) Asmaa is only 19 and was studying computer engineering before the war. She's trying to raise money to evacuate her family. Donate Here (GFM)

@hillesmahmoud (vetted) Mahmoud is in Belgium, and hasn't seen his wife and four children in Gaza for 7 years. His wife has kidney problems and medical treatment is very expensive. He is raising money for them in hopes they can evacuate and be reunited. Donate Here (GFM)

@saveranafamily (vetted) Rana Akeela has lost his home in a bombing and is trying to support his family. Donate Here (GFM)

@hazemsuhail (vetted - #75) Hazem Shawish is trying to support his family of 8, which includes 3 kids, as well as his brother who suffers from bipolar disorder and struggles to find medication. Donate Here (GFM)

@olagaza (vetted- #205) Before oct. 7, Ola was a grad student studying math at Al-Azhar university. She lives with her parents and four siblings in the North of Gaza. Donate Here (GFM)

@help-mona (vetted) Mohammed is trying to help his 5 year old daughter Mona as well as his wife, mother, sisters and nieces to survive this onslaught. They need $27 daily just for non-potable water. Donate Here (GFM)

@salem-baker (vetted) Salem (26) and his wife, Hadeel (25) are trying to survive in Gaza with their two kids, Laila (5) and Bakr (5mos). Their house is totally destroyed. Donate Here (GFM)

@fidaa-family2 (vetted) Fidaa is 29 and has two children: two year old Sila and Muhammad Amr who was born during the war. Both children are sick from the terrible conditions that no one should have to endure. Donate Here (GFM)

@ayaalhabil (vetted) Mohammed is a father of 3, and owned a shop in gaza before it was destroyed. as of 10/24/24, their fundraiser has only received €125 Donate Here (GFM)

@foxysa (vetted) Enas and Mohammed are trying to survive with four young children including a baby after the loss of their tech startup and only source of income. Donate Here (GFM)

@yousef-fals (vetted) Jad gave birth to her son Yousef during this genocide. Their house was bulldozed, and they are struggling to afford basics like milk and diapers. Donate Here (GFM)

[nhaneh]

wait shit I just realised where I recognised the soul orb VFX from

the attack on Tuliyollal didn't just massacre a bunch of civilians wholesale, it also actively took their souls to feed into their little extra life brain dongles!

yeah okay extra fuck these guys and their little Google Gaol in the Cloud™. Query Sphery might act like she cares about people but honestly I don't think she's really all that much better than Zoraal Ja, lmao

Nevermind the fact that for all she says about caring about her people, she doesn't seem to actually understand... well, people. At all. It's like... she kind of gives me LLM vibes? Like she has information about people, she has data about individuals and their preferences and behaviours and has, out of all that data, compiled a statistical model of how social behaviour tends to look and is basically just mimicking it, ChatGPT-style. Like she's a computer simulation that someone fed a bunch of data and told to act as a benevolent ruler should and that's what she's doing - it's all behaviour without any understanding of it. Her out of the blue use of the nickname Lamaty'i stands out in particular - it's like her data model shows people who are close and personal to Wuk Lamat use the term, and she's supposed to be close and personal, so she used it with no understanding of what it actually means to use it, of the process of kinship that needs precede it.

Plus those awkward moments where she kind of pauses before going into the next set of behaviours. Like yeah the cutscene animations generally have a bit of that by default, but this is very deliberate emphasis. I feel like I could literally hang a big display saying "PROCESSING, PLEASE WAIT..." in front of her entire face.

It's also such a stark contrast to Cahciua who shows up controlling a robot body but is so starkly and vibrantly alive in a way that Quere Sphere is very much not, and that choice feels extremely deliberate to me.

Kinda getting the sense that this part of Dawntrail was definitely inspired by the recent obsession with "AI" - and maybe just a tiny bit about how it depends on the consumption of things both fundamentally human, and things that humans need in order to prosper - in reality by the vast amount of data needed to feed the models, the underpaid workers from poorer countries put to continuously adjust the models, and the amount of potable water needed for cooling, while in XIV... the system literally eats souls to maintain itself.

[pulpfanfiction]

i love that everyone latched onto the water wasting thing. yeah sure it definitely uses water, this is computer cooling we're talking about. but since its computer cooling, theyre not using potable water. it doesnt get launched into space never to be seen again, it just gets recycled probably right back into the same cooling system. and if generating an image is such a huge waste, then whats to be said of massive data centers hosting millions of servers? i can assure you a lot of those servers are just as useless as an ai image, if not even moreso.

no but you see every time i generate an image i drink a big ol bottle of water

[theweirdwideweb]

the water usage thing definitely isnt nothing but like. think of how much water pretty much any major industry uses. also i highly doubt theyre using potable water to cool the computers. which is the kind we need to be conserving not not any random water off the street lol

Right that's my thought too. 1) This is why we have engineers and regulations, 2) Me posting an ai image of a claymation baked potato is a non-factor on the scale of worldwide resource use. People might argue that I don't need that claymation potato--but you don't need that smartphone you're complaining about it on either. You don't need a lot of things that take up resources. It would drive people crazy to inventory their resource impact that way and it's not an obligation for your everyday person. I think there's just this moral panic about ai right now because it's new and suddenly everywhere.

[wormsslime]

i think its unfortunate that crypto hate coalesced so hard around the (proof-of-work*) environmental cost, and even more unfortunate that that has basically been extended to every Computer Bad issue (currently mostly ai).

like. actually, basically nothing is going to waste more electricity and water and video cards and whatever else than the thing that was specifically designed to require "just about as much computing power as we can figure out how to make" in order to prevent inflation. on account of. anything that takes more than that is something we cant do and thus arent doing and thus isnt a current problem.

to be fair [gritting my teeth] the proof of work* crypto concept didnt come out of nowhere. its basically the same thing as "well we cant just shorten the workweek without paying people less or else were just giving them money for free? you cant give people money for free??? unless theyre shareholders". like. MOST things are currently set up to push the limits of production (see also: fast fashion landfills). its just that the other things have some sort of output and thus take time to scale up, vs (pow*) crypto which is just "every time the number gets bigger it gets bigger slower".

anyway. im not out here to defend google or microsoft or whatever. im not tryna say theyre not gonna squeeze every dollar possible out of all our breathable air or potable water. but u people have to understand that throwing as much electricity as possible at doing math that was designed specifically and solely for the purpose of taking as much electricity as possible was a specific thing, and not an inherent trait of computers. just because the auto industry takes an unsustainable amount of water doesnt mean going places is inherently evil, and just because the ai craze is taking an unsustainable amount of water doesnt mean that making computer pictures is inherently evil. please.

*im not a particular fan of proof of stake crypto or anything but it is factually true that its proof of work specifically that acts like my roommates tablet software (eating up all the ram you have for no reason other than its there to eat)

[phoenixknight777]

Exploration Log: Planet 86, “Ulisa”

Ngl this is probably one of my favorite early short stories. Definitely one that I might consider writing a part 2 of someday.

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The pod door opened, allowing the alien atmosphere into the airlock. A single man stepped out, possibly the first to ever set foot on this soil.

“H.O.S.S., how's the air?”

“Seems breathable” replied the supercomputer mounted on his wrist. “If you’d trusted my scans, you wouldn’t have to ask.”

“Oh shut up.” Chaucer replied as he removed his helmet. “You know as well as I that those things aren’t always accurate”

“Accurate enough for a computer like me. Why’d they even send meat on this mission? I can handle it all, and far more efficiently.”

“H.O.S.S., as I’ve told you before, some things just need a human's instinct. Speaking of which, deploy the scout drones.”

“I did that as we landed. Of course, you would never have thought of that.”

“Just show me the feeds”

A barage of images flash through Chaucer’s ocular implants.

“Slower you idiot.”

“I would’ve been able to handle that speed.”

“And, like the last 4 times, I cannot. So again, slower.”

The images pass by again at a more manageable speed, showing a sky view of the area in a 30 mile radius. Chaucer’s trained eyes look for things that might be useful to potential settlers.

A forest of woody looking plants to the east, tall enough for construction. They’d need to be tested for poisons and other natural defenses.

A large body of water to the south-west. They would have to check its potability. Wouldn’t hurt to look for plants and animals either.

Due north, a few mountains with caves. Well rounded, so likely stable. They could be good shelter.

“H.O.S.S., run full spectrum testing on those plants and that lake. This one looks promising. And patch me into drone twenty four. I wanna investigate those caves myself.

“I could do it quicker~” the computer replied in a singsong voice.

“Yes, you could. Just do it. Call it a gut feeling.”

“That’s irrational.”

“And that’s exactly why you need “meat” on these missions. Now hook me in. We’re burning batteries.”

Chaucer’s vision flickered for a moment. Then the drone's camera feed replaced his vision. Tapping his wristpad, he took manual control of the machine, maneuvering it into one of the ground-level caves.

Odd…

“Those look like stairs…”

“What was that?” replied H.O.S.S.

“Stairs. At the caves. Probably just a coincidence, but still. How’s the analysis coming?”

“82%. You humans. So impatient.”

“Yeah yeah, take your time.”

Chaucer turned his attention back towards the caverns.

Continuing past the entrance, the front descends deeper into the underground.

“This planet was definitely civilized. Not primitives either. There’s a huge metal vault down here. Scanners can’t penetrate and don’t recognize the metal. High carbon content though.”

“Peculiar. I’ll send a land drone to run tests.”

“No. I’m investigating this myself.”

“But…”

“Shut it H.O.S.S. There's only been three planets discovered with intelligent life. I’m going myself, in case this is the fourth. Send down the Skipper.”

A few minutes later, the Skipper had descended from their shuttle in orbit. About 7 feet tall, the mechanical exoskeleton looked like little more than a roll cage with mechanical dog legs and a pair of grasper arms. Designed for off-world mining, it was an invaluable tool for explorers like Chaucer. Strong, fast, and modified to be equipped with a myriad of scientific tools, it allowed him to go almost anywhere with minimal difficulty.

“By the way,” said H.O.S.S., “those tests are finished. The water is drinkable, and there’s kelp-like plants. The trees have a slightly emetic substance in the leaves, but the bark shows multiple medicinal properties. No life above the microscopic level in either location. That concerns me.”

“That concerns me too. There must have been macroscopic life in the past for the trees to develop a defense like that. But where did they go? Also harvest some of those trees. The medical guild will be very interested.”

“Already on it.”

Chaucer set out, quickly crossing the distance. Entering the cavern, he cautiously looks around.

No signs of life.

Going deeper, he quickly comes towards the metal vault.

“Even weirder in person. Almost no reflection. I’m gonna try to take a sample.”

“I wouldn’t do that.”

“Why not?”

“I’m picking up electrical readings that were not there when the drone was.”

“All the more reason to take one.”

“Fine, but be careful.”

“I thought you wanted to take over the mission?” replied Chaucer as he started the mining drill in the Skipper’s wrist.

“I do, but unfortunately I’m programmed to care for you”

“Awww, that so swe-“

Clunk 

The drill shattered on contact with the vault wall.

“Chaucer. Get out. Now.“

“Why? Just cause the drill broke-“

“No, the electrical signals just got stronger. And they’re moving.”

As if on cue, a harsh buzzing filled the air.

Drones. Hundreds of them. All armed.

Chaucer turned the Skipper and pushed it to the max as he left the cavern.

Reaching the surface, he saw a massive cloud of drones pouring from every cave in the mountain. 

“H.O.S.S, send defensive drones. Now!”

“Done and done. Seriously, what would you do without me.”

Chaucer continued running from the drones, blasts from ion weapons poking holes in the personal shields of the Skipper. 

A few moments later, the friendly drones swarmed over a hill. Most started using repurposed mining lasers to fire back at the offense. A few landed on top of the Skipper and began projecting a much stronger barrier around the mech, protecting him.

As the shields of the defensive drones began to falter, Chaucer approached the landing site. Abandoning the Skipper he dashed into the pod, slamming the door shut.

“Go! Go! Get us out of here!” he screamed.

The pod rattled as it rapidly ascended.

Escaping the atmosphere, Chaucer began to calm down a little.

“How much will the mech and drones cost us?” he finally asked as they began approaching their ship.

“A decent bit, but we’ll make plenty from the plants. Plus, the planet is habitable, just with dangerous ruins. We’ll still make more than enough to replace them from the finders bounty.”

“Alright. That’s good. I guess that explains the lack of animals. I say we name it Ulisa, after my ex. Seemed nice but was secretly a killer.”

“As good a choice as any I suppose. Setting a course for Terra. Once we refuel, on to planet 87.”

[omgkalyppso]

What's your favorite thing about Avery? I wanna know more about our favorite grape. Personally I love all the piercings you gave him and his relationship with the others of the OT4 are grate and lovely

Thank you for the ask!

My favorite thing?

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Okay, in honesty, I think it's that Avery gets to be a free spirit. Where Fae is wish fulfillment, Avery is something else entirely. I get to use his past (and present) to express / examine pain as it relates to sexuality, ancestry and immediate family. He has abandonment issues but doesn't use them to cling to the people around them, and instead lives a very risky, happy, punk life that leaves him on the fringes of comfort in a way that he doesn't exactly need to be, but which allows him privacy and personal freedoms.

Like the rest of the ot4 sleeping in the Almyran palace or the Gloucester estate or some other long established home; while Avery could be out somewhere fighting for his life or sleeping on a precarious mountaintop or selling something valuable for a few nights at an inn. The rest of the ot4 talking about children and marriage in a canon-compliant setting and he just, isn't there for that, for years, and he worries too that this would breed animosity, or a strange rift when he likes their children because they're funny and friendly and so unlike children he's seen and known who've grown up with nothing. But it eases him into other aspects of their lives. There's a level of chaos returned and he's not about to be employed as a nanny, but he's good with children and family and with other aspects of long-term relationships and living together. He's welcomed and he thrives in it.

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Claude has his big dreams for big reasons, Lorenz has his sense of a noble's duty, Hilda is more social than militant and Fae is very empathetic, BUT Avery's personal history means that he has been more directly and personally reliant on the sort of people that just show up as numbers in noble ledgers, whether as soldiers, merchants, people to ensure potable water to, people in need of burial or cremation. He doesn't make a good leader, not of more than a couple dozen when pressed, he can't wrap his mind around it and he helps ground reality for his noble partners in a way that is different than Cyril's refugee experience.

My ultimate Just A Guy oc is Lucanus, but Avery is Just A Punk, with some bells and whistles and narrative challenges. He has his piercings and the streak in his hair and abandons the way he was chosen by destiny to keep from dying on every hill. He feels like he isn't the protagonist of his own story and he tries to keep it from leaking into how he interacts with others.

He isn't afraid of commitment, but he would be living entirely in his own head if he were in a permanent place of esteem, and he can't invest himself that way. It isn't a matter of seeing the world so much as continuing to acquaint himself with people who live at his pace, whether by choice or by circumstance. He's learned by fe3h end-game time that he wouldn't be able to devote himself to one other person (and their happiness), but he helps where he can and he likes making friends, but he's also learning who he is without Arval, and what his new normal could be, and how it relates to the old 'normal' he once knew.

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Am I talking in circles? Am I making sense?

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On that last character sheet I marked down "trades" as being the line of academia that Avery would be most like. He'd be the kind of friend who has a different job every four months, but he retains the skills he picks up and abandons and is fired from for various reasons. I almost marked down drop out, but I felt like that wouldn't accurately reflect what I meant. He might also have been a proper college drop out however, spending more time covering shifts for friends while they crammed for exams than he did studying or going to class. Something he would regret sometimes, but that generally wouldn't be part of his perception of self. He'd rather be mixing drinks, tuning a car, repairing a roof in the sunlight than highering his education.

I've written Fae as a drop out in my soulmate AU, but for financial reasons (like me) and with the intent that they could go back on Lorenz's bill someday to either pursue "Byleth-like" teaching or something else more "respectable."

Avery would rather [redacted]. Even if he's not doing fine, he's doing fine. He's right where he needs to be.

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In non-canon settings, I often have the ot4 meet at much later than 17 ish like they do in-canon and as such it is possible that Avery may be more prepared for a more active role in the polycule from the get-go if they're all hooking up for the first time at like 22, 28, 35, or whatever.

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Also regardless of setting I want him not only to have piercings but also have a fascination with them and an apprenticeship in properly giving them. I ultimately decided Fae only has ear piercings but whether Claude, Hilda or other characters have additional jewellery at his hand is something I'm up in the air about.

[solublecarpet]

Why the heck is this using water? I understand that computers need cooling but are they really taking potable water, warming it a little and dumping it as waste water? That's ridiculous.

[shopyvision01]

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Extracting Water from Air

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It kinda depends on how you define consumption? Ultimately speaking, all water returns to the water cycle eventually and will eventually return. Unless you're turning it into not-water via chemistry.

From the point of view of Water Infrastructure it's a question of Water Usage and Disposal. So... How clean does the water have to be to cool a machine? And how clean is it when it comes out?

I don't know a lot about hardware, but I imagine you don't want calcium build up. That's not just potable (drinkable) Water, it's at minimum soft water. So they need to take the high quality water we can drink and make it fit for computers.

Now, how do they make it safe for computers? [Googles] They add anti-corrosives and anti-bacterial that are "probably" not safe to drink. Which means they're taking potable water and making it non-potable. That means it needs to be processed before it's added back into the water supply, and therefore has been consumed.

Now, do they reuse the water? According to more googling, no. A watercooled CPU needs to be replaced every 3-5 years and it's best to replace the whole dang thing. I assume industrial computers get more use and therefore need to be replaced more frequently. So if they consume a bottle per 20-50 questions that's... a lot of fucking CPUs.

So it turns out that ChatGPT not only uses a ton shit of energy, but also a ton shit of water. This is according to a new study by a group of researchers from the University of Colorado Riverside and the University of Texas Arlington, Futurism reports.

Which sounds INSANE but also makes sense when you think of it. You know what happens to, for example, your computer when it’s doing a LOT of work and processing. You gotta cool those machines.

And what’s worrying about this is that water shortages are already an issue almost everywhere, and over this summer, and the next summers, will become more and more of a problem with the rising temperatures all over the world. So it’s important to have this in mind and share the info. Big part of how we ended up where we are with the climate crisis is that for a long time politicians KNEW about the science, but the large public didn’t have all the facts. We didn’t have access to it. KNOWING about things and sharing that info can be a real game-changer. Because then we know up to what point we, as individuals, can have effective actions in our daily lives and what we need to be asking our legislators for.

And with all the issues AI can pose, I think this is such an important argument to add to the conversation.

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Kandersteg, Switzerland

June 1, 2024

Barclay and I drove another 30 minutes south from Spiez, deeper into the Swiss Alps. We decided to throw some clothes into a backpack and hike up to a hut to spend the night.

Check out the sexy rolled up hiking pants look. It was so humid from the rain and just sticky!

Several waterfall crossings which was fun. Thank goodness for waterproof hiking boots.

I’m pointing to the waterfall. Barclay is pointing to the hut on top of the ridge. Minor spousal miscommunication. Haha

Doldenhornhütte! This is a hut that was first built out of wood in 1899! It has since been rebuilt with stone. We enjoyed some large draft beers and blankets (and put on all our layers). It was mid to high 40s at that elevation - 1915 meters.

It was cute inside - small but warm with the wood burning stove. Dinner was family style (soup, baked meat of some sort, rice and a yogurt thing for dessert. You never know what it’ll be which is half the fun. There were 16 people staying that night. We just play games, cards, chat, drink, etc. We spent most our time with two Swiss guys that were super interesting. One was a carpenter and one was a computer engineer for the Swiss Stock Exchange. He also brought an analog camera to capture the sunset (or more like fog).

There is no potable water at this hut (rare) but it did have a real toilet (rare). It was in a separate building just up the hill a bit. The fog rolled in and made for a strange vibe.