What called my attention is that assessments of AI are becoming polarized and somewhat a matter of belief.

Proceed to write a belief as a statement in the following paragraph

If you think LLMs doesnt think (I won’t argue that they arent extremely dumb), please define what is thinking, before continuing, and if your definition of thinking doesn’t apply to humans, we won’t be able to agree.

The video very clearly answers this. Like, multiple times.

No, they made affirmation, that’s not a proof.
For the first location, they say the loss of water pression AND the sediments are due to the datacenter.
They are getting their water from a well, if a well runs out, you get more sediments.
Is this your “clear answers” ?

We know that it is a tremendous amount of water because we can estimate and we can see the data of towns literally going into extreme droughts right next to data centers.

If this come from your video again, i again doubt your statements.

Datacenters dont make water magically disapear, it have to go somewhere.
You would see a release pipe, so the water is restituted, or vapor cloud, which should be very visible.
But we dont see any vapor cloud.

AI is not the whole cloud, it’s a fraction of the cloud.
The MIT Press article is from 2022, citing 2019 data. Datacenter tech and heat reuse extremely intensified the last years, so this data is clearly out of date.

Go explain to these people why “bigger DCs are actually better”:

Tell me where there is any proof this is meta fault ? Because they are near the datacenter ? Do you have any idea of the amount of water a datacenter consume ?

Not at all. Bigger datacenter usually use lower carbon energy source, try to lower energy spent for cooling and try to recycle the heat.
New datacenter reuse more and more the heat they generate:
https://blog.equinix.com/blog/2024/06/05/what-is-data-center-heat-export-and-how-does-it-work/

Real water polluter are PFAS producer, not datacenters.

Not every datacenter is like elon datacenters.

I’m someone who use LLM, including Claude Code a lot.
But come on, this could be a tiny script that do the same, write it with claude code if you dont want to write it, instead of having claude code run each time, you’ll be deterministic this way !