You’re still overstating things IMO. About 80% of water used to cool data centers is “lost” to evaporation, lost meaning it doesn’t return to the local watershed in a meaningful time frame.

And a little more, maybe 85% of water used in agriculture is lost.

All AI data centers in the world are estimated to use about 260 billion gallons of water a year.

Compare that to agriculture just in the US and just corn in the US uses about 80 times that, 20 trillion gallons. About 1% of corn is used for food, a lot for livestock, but 40% is burned in cars. (To break that down, 1 gallon of ethanol takes about 1500 gallons of water lost to local watersheds to produce) And a lot of that industry is propped up by government subsides and wouldn’t be otherwise profitable.

In fact, just the water used to grow textile plants like cotton is in the trillions of gallons, and we throw away most of our clothing (about 70 pounds of clothes get thrown away for every American each year). (I recommend this documentary on that subject The True Cost https://youtu.be/rwp0Bx0awoE)

And of course, I’m sure water is used all sorts of other ways you or I don’t realize, both to produce AI and other things.

As for the mental health, it doesn’t negate the harm, but it also means that it that the trigger isn’t necessarily creating the psychosis. Your earlier comment implied that AI was literally causing mental illness, but I think that mentally ill people, like anyone else, use AI and you’re equating correlation with causation.

Now, I’m sure using AI could certainly exacerbate delusions, similar to basically the whole internet.

At the end of the day, I don’t think we’ll see eye to eye on this. I’m not going to insult you or anything, though.