Well. Guess we shouldn’t drink water anymore

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Summary

Jeff Bezos argues that AI data centers should be prioritized for water and energy resources over human consumption to enable the development of superintelligence, sparking controversy over AI's environmental impact.

Bezos also said that in order for AI to reach that potential, certain resources must be allocated and prioritised for the technology rather than for human consumption. AI data centres’ use of large quantities of water has been a point of contention and concern for many people around the world. But Bezos argued that “we have to look at the macro-picture of our planet’s future.” “Biological limits are real, but digital potential is infinite. If we starve our data infrastructure of cooling resources just to sustain baseline human comfort, we are actively delaying the birth of a super-intelligence that could solve all of our resource problems in the first place Sometimes you have to prioritise the intelligence that will save us over the biology that slows us down,” he added. Link : https://theprint.in/feature/jeff-bezos-water-consumption-amazon-ai-potential/2964266/
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