Yik Yak logo
Download TikTok Instagram X
Yik Yak icon
Join communities on Yik Yak Download
Girl Talk icon
Girl Talk 1w
I feel like ppl who have no problem with ai are ignorant bc they don’t have to see the real world consequences there’s a rural town 7mi from my bf and they literally don’t have clean drinking water due to a meta data center that got built there it’s sick
comment

10
upvote 61 downvote
default user profile icon
Anonymous 1w

Ohhh is this what they mean when they say ai consumes water? I’ve always wondered what exactly that meant I was extremely confused

upvote 10 downvote
default user profile icon
Anonymous 1w

ok but that’s prolly not the fault of ai as much as corporate entities consistently fucking up marginalized/underprivileged communities for their own gain like they do that in general i fear

upvote -6 downvote
default user profile icon
Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

No it’s ai. Ai had used more water this year than any water bottling company

upvote 12 downvote
default user profile icon
Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

no it can definitely be both this just seems like yet another way corporate america destroys the less fortunate

upvote -2 downvote
default user profile icon
Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

do you have the source for this?? i believe u but its def something i wanna show other ppl too

upvote 1 downvote
default user profile icon
Anonymous replying to -> #3 1w

https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/ai-now-consumes-more-water-than-the-global-bottled-water-industry-new-study-reveals-507978-2025-12-24

upvote 8 downvote
default user profile icon
Anonymous replying to -> #3 1w

I just realized that probably won’t work so here’s the headline for it

post
upvote 11 downvote
default user profile icon
Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

I think that both things are true that corporations do not care about destroying rural communities but meta specifically does not care about it because they are vying for the top spot as the leading innovator for ai which is why these meta data centers are popping up in rural communities because they are bribing already struggling farmers for their land

upvote 23 downvote
default user profile icon
Anonymous replying to -> #3 1w

Here’s a link to the actual study it’s titled “The carbon and water footprints of data centers and what this could mean for artificial intelligence” published by Alex de Vries-Gao https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389925002788

upvote 14 downvote
default user profile icon
Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

thank u!

upvote 4 downvote