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AI Is Accelerating the Loss of Our Scarcest Natural Resource: Water (www.forbes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (23 children)

Relatively easy, but expensive, problem to solve. We have all the salt water you need. Build nuclear plants and desalinate.

Stop allowing them to use the Colorado River.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (21 children)

I'm pretty sure desalinization doesn't scale. The salt needs to go somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And it takes a lot of energy

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

which may not be an issue since companies running AI stuff are planning to deploy civilian mini nuclear reactors around the country

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