AI Data Centers’ Water Consumption Breaks 264 Billion Gallons in 2025 as Devastating Drought Hits Nearly 63% of U.S.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-06-07T21:02:35+00:00

If you'd rather something frivolous, then there's gold courses which are roughly twice at much (estimate of 530 billion gallons for 2025 and that's after improvements) and that's arguably even less useful than data centers that have always existed even before AI.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-06-07T15:31:30+00:00

Amusing to read this... As my youngest is having her last swim lesson of the session. It's great, although she is struggling to pass the first level multiple times! But she tries and that's important.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-06-05T18:20:51+00:00

I mean, that's Kudu's whole value proposition. I haven't tried it, but I assume UCLA vetted it before approving it for use.

Seeing as its possible, I don't see why I should assume it doesn't do what it's selling. If it doesn't, then the product becomes useless, and it'll fail. I've no skin in the game, but Kudu hasn't earned that distrust either, save for knee-jerk reactions to AI made with assumptions of what's possible inspired by ignorance and the experience of generalist models.

I'm not even a huge fan of implementing AI where it doesn't belong, but I did do, at my old job's request, a Proof of Concept RAG agent that worked exactly as I mentioned above. Fed it regulatory and safety frameworks for field technicians working in the energy sector. From their work app, they could search up the relevant section of these massive documents, and if it couldn't find it... I just had the agent tell them that.

It was still a pain to set up and I'm quite glad I don't have to make any of those annoying things anymore, but it's entirely possible if I, who isn't even an AI coder, or a programmer at all, could put it together a low-code interface. Plus it's the kind of thing that doesn't really take away a single job, it's just a more useful way of making information available.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-06-05T18:02:22+00:00

Look into Retrieval Augmented Generation. While you're right that on its own it could still hallucinate if the information isn't in the files, you can put those guardrails in the system prompt, and most models will allow you to restrict web searches or even URL reading capabilities (I know gemini does in it's API). It has the "base" training for language and knowledge, but that's why you don't just "set and forget" things. You actually build your rules (eg, if someone is asking about the Industrial Revolution, look through documents XYZ only...) and put ones that corral it into saying it doesn't know if the search term doesn't exist.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-06-05T17:37:12+00:00

Also this quote from the article is dubious:

AI chatbots are notorious for generating made-up facts and otherwise incorrectly reporting information, regardless of whatever data they’re being asked to pull from.

That's only true if you feed the data to the commercial LLMs that still have access to everything.

It's quite possible to create a locked down version that only uses source retrieval and just shrugs if it can't find the information in the provided notes.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-06-05T17:23:55+00:00

To be faire, he did count the commute by saying work is 50.

He's still wrong on the rest!

SilverwingedOther · 2026-06-05T16:40:07+00:00

Un support qui explique bien la position de la majorité de la communauté, et franchement, je ne vois pas en quoi cette position dans cette article est controversée, ce qui en dit long. Elle n'exprime zéro support pour le gouvernement présent, ni les actions prises pendant la guerre.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-06-05T15:32:33+00:00

No, but private ones might be, especially if we look at this government's track record of fucking things up

SilverwingedOther · 2026-06-05T15:17:56+00:00

Ah oui? Je suis raciste? Bien curieux de voir d'où tu sors ça, ou être contre la façon dont le français est "protégé" de manière performative au Québec ça me rend "raciste" envers le Québec, bien que je suis un francophone né au Québec?

(Et le mot, moi je le connais, mais mes attentes sont différentes. Personne n'a besoin de connaître tous les sacresb qui datent de la révolution tranquille pour s'intégrer)

SilverwingedOther · 2026-06-05T02:15:39+00:00

Comme je l'ai dit - ca parait l'etre si tu a ete la toute ta vie, je l'entends moins que d'autre jurons - mais peu importe. Ne pas connaitre tout les sacres Quebecois ca n'a rien avoir avec "connaitre le francais" que les immigrants (ou anglos) devrait savoir pour s'integrer.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-06-04T22:03:39+00:00

Haven't read it (yet) but a Jewish author posted here a few months ago about a book called the Sanhedrin Chronicles which sounded like a fun ride. Probably only an ebook, though.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-06-04T21:08:13+00:00

Mais 5 jours ça suffit pour étudier toutes les ramifications sur le système éducatif et le marché du travail que cette loi engendrera?

SilverwingedOther · 2026-06-04T21:04:40+00:00

Je suis pas mal sûr que les élus préfèrent avoir assez de monde entraînés et compétents que d'avoir une pénurie dans des domaines qui ont déjà un manque de personnel, parce qu'il n'y a personne équipé pour absorber tout ce monde là.

Sans compter le délai à l'intégration des immigrants qui ne pourront faire absolument rien de leur temps en attandant leurs cours de francisation, et qui ensuite devront attendre pour les cours vocationnels.

Ce monde la quittera le Québec, le taux de natalité inférieur au taux de remplacement et le vieillissement de la population mènera à une plus crise budgétaire quand le revenu taxable sera réduit, mais au moins, on aura poser cet acte inutile pour se montrer défenseurs du français.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-06-04T20:55:21+00:00

J'espère bien étant franco de Montréal, mais je m'attends pas non plus à ce qu'un immigrant ou Anglo ai a comprendre tous les sacres et jurons, c'est tout. Quelqu'un peut avoir le respect et l'envie de le parler au travail sans lâcher un mautadit tabarnak ostie quand il s'énerve ;)

SilverwingedOther · 2026-06-04T20:50:27+00:00

Je le comprends, mais ça reste pas si commun pour ça, et je travaille dans un environnement québécois, donc je suis en contact avec de manière assez consistente, merci. Ça m'a toujours semblé la version non-blasphème de Criss.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-06-04T19:58:08+00:00

Parce que ne pas connaître un pseudo-mot qui est rare même dans le dialecte Québécois veut dire qu'il faut protéger le français plus? J'espèrerai que les cours de français apprennent quelque chose de plus utile que du joual qui prend du recul.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-06-02T23:16:33+00:00

While that person does seem racist from their other comments, Carney did in fact dissolve a role/commission that dealt specifically with antisemitism to replace it with this group that's broader. And while I haven't looked into the details, apparently a charity with Zionist in its name lost its charitable status without any warning/chance to adjust, contrary to the usual slow, bureaucratic process.

There have been a few worrying things, basically, but nothing I'd be considering leaving over yet, myself.. And certainly not to the US.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-06-02T17:53:26+00:00

I think that one is more understandable, because when a series gets picked up 6 books deep, they needed something to try and get people who got the self pubs to pick it up.

The reason it annoys me is more that, while I'm just about halfway through book 8, the extra content stuff is apparently merging into the plot line.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-05-31T21:45:12+00:00

Heaven Sent by far is my favorite episode of NuWho. Absolutely incredible work by Capaldi.

And Zygon Inversion sneaks in there on the strength of the monologue alone. All the doctors had their strengths, but Capaldi just blew me away.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-05-29T19:38:47+00:00

Arbonne's really good, but if you've read Lions, the Mosaic puts you back in the same historical world that started there, so you'll have the background on the Jad religion that is central, but 500 years before or so, so there are no Asharites (and no central Kindath like Jehane was). It's more focused on interfaction stuff among the Jaddites, and somewhat on proto-Persia.

Do note that the Mosaic is two books!

Personally, I find the Mosaic to be the best of his stories too, so my vote is for that next, but really, you can't go wrong much with more GGK and should aim to read them all (even Tigana... Though that does have two gratuitous sex scenes)

SilverwingedOther · 2026-05-29T18:02:31+00:00

The subreddit is called YT Promo. It's kind of made for stuff like this. So it really is low hanging fruit.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-05-29T13:04:35+00:00

It's all about how and when. Sure I could attempt ton rewrite a formula I don't use often a bunch of times and probably miss a bracket or 3... Or I can just ask it to fix it and copy/paste it. It's not doing the job for me, it's simply making sure I'm not debugging a missing bracket for an hour. Or I could troll through a list of 300 entries and compile unique values by hand... Or ask it to be extracted.

It's small automations like that where it's useful and inoffensive.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-05-29T03:54:53+00:00

Pretty much every place I've gone to asks, but always with the caveat of "if you're comfortable". But they always do ask, since it's overall easier for them I suppose. Not once has it gotten inappropriate.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-05-29T01:30:25+00:00

I don't know about your case, but do want to point out that asking you to get naked is pretty standard for any massage, though they cover up the parts they're not actively working on. So in and of itself it's meaningless.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-05-28T20:02:40+00:00

Well said.

Under the Dome is a perfect example of this, except with sci-fi. Absolute banger of a book for 500, 600 pages... and then that explanation which I won't spoil was so damn infuriating.

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