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@WallStreetApes "we could never win an election... but maybe you could actually unilaterally change the world without constantly convince people... who are never going to agree with you - through technological means... Technology is this incredible alternative to politics." - Peter Thiel https://t.co/Gj9h48GOeS
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Basic idea was that, we could never win an election on on on getting certain things because we were in such a small minority. But maybe you could actually unilaterally change the world without having to constantly convince people and beg people and plead with people who are never gonna agree with you through technological means. And this is where I think, technology is this incredible alternative to politics. The speaker suggests that electoral wins are unlikely while in the minority, and that unilateral world-changing is possible through technology rather than persuasion. The core claim presents technology as an incredible alternative to politics, offering a path to influence outcomes without broad consensus-building.
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Speaker 0: Basic idea was that, we could never win an election on on on getting certain things because we were in such a small minority. But maybe you could actually unilaterally change the world without having to constantly convince people and beg people and plead with people who are never gonna agree with you through technological means. And this is where I think, technology is this incredible alternative to politics.
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The conversation highlights concerns about the increasing water scarcity faced by big tech and AI industries. It suggests that these sectors may compete for limited water resources, potentially prioritizing their expansion and business needs over agriculture and basic water consumption for people. The discussion emphasizes the implications of this competition for sustainable development and includes links to a full video that elaborates on the topic.
@Wordofbeak - Maria Sederholm @Wordofbeak
#BigTech & #AI are running out of💧water. In the not so distant future, they will fight over scarce water sources to fund their expansion and business at the expense of agriculture and basic water consumption by people. 1/6 #SustainableDevelopment 🤔 Full video 🔗 at end of 🧵 https://t.co/ntd4Qsmx4w
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Experts have warned of a coming water crisis, possibly already spurring conflicts due to scarcity. While Earth appears to be a blue planet, 98% of its water is saline, with much of the fresh water locked in glaciers. The available fresh water is unevenly distributed, and reservoirs are being depleted.
Big Tech's growing demand for water is exacerbating the problem, though this is intentionally kept secret. The speaker investigated Big Tech's water consumption and its potential disastrous consequences. This video you are watching is brought to you by water. Data centers, which host massive amounts of data, require vast amounts of water for cooling. An average data center consumes up to 5 million gallons of water daily, equivalent to the usage of 50,000 people in an American city.
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Speaker 0: A secret, but a future water wars will be waged by the Big Tech and AI. For decades, experts have been warning us that we are running out of available fresh water. Some even suggested that a few major conflicts in recent history may have already been spurred up by water scarcity. Don't be fooled by this whole blue planet thing. The earth is lying to you.
98% of the water on this globe is saline. And much of the fresh water is locked up in glaciers that are now melting into oceans. The fresh water that's available to us is unevenly distributed, and many reservoirs are being depleted faster than it can be replenished. Now we've been using water very irresponsibly for all of the industrial era in agriculture, manufacturing or mining. But today, the big tech's thirst for this most precious resource is growing unquenchable, pushing additional pressure on the already cracking camel's back.
It may seem unlikely, and if you've never heard of this before, it's intentional. It's because the Big Tech has kept it a secret. But I went down the rabbit hole and was able to find the ticking time bomb that is the big tech's water consumption. I found how much water the big tech and AI actually use up. And I've seen the disastrous consequences this AI hype is gonna have in the future.
And I'm gonna share it all with you. This will change your whole perspective on the modern world. I've covered Big Tech water consumption before, but things are much much worse than I previously reported on. Could you imagine how much water the Big Tech actually uses? Think about this very video you're watching right now.
It, in fact, has been brought to you by water. A lot of water. This video was uploaded to youtube.com forward slash the hated one, which means it sits somewhere in these giant warehouse sized data centers, in multiple of them at once, in fact. Each of these data centers is hosting copies of every single Iterata user's data. They deliver that data to other users, clients, and third parties.
There are petabytes of information sitting here in an endless cycle of perpetual backups. This process is very resource intensive and expensive, which is why YouTube doesn't really have a competitor. Data centers run very hot and to improve efficiency they cool them down with water. Like entire cities worth of water. The on-site consumption of an average data center amounts to up to 5,000,000 gallons of water per day, which is as much as 50,000 people use in an American city.
@Wordofbeak - Maria Sederholm @Wordofbeak
#BigTech & #AI are running out of💧water. In the not so distant future, they will fight over scarce water sources to fund their expansion and business at the expense of agriculture and basic water consumption by people. 2/6 #SustainableDevelopment 🤔 Full video 🔗 at end of 🧵 https://t.co/EoViyv8vWo
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Data centers use vast amounts of water for cooling, with an average center consuming up to 5,000,000 gallons daily. In 2022, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft used 1,500,000,000,000 liters for on-site cooling, and this usage is increasing, driven by AI; training GPT-3 evaporated 700,000 liters of water in Microsoft data centers.
Data centers evaporate one to nine liters of water per kilowatt hour of server energy. Big Tech has allegedly concealed this information, treating water withdrawals as trade secrets, sometimes using shell companies. While they report direct cooling water consumption, they often omit the larger off-site water usage. In the US, 73% of electricity comes from thermoelectric plants that use water for steam and cooling, adding 3.1 liters of water consumption and up to 43.8 liters of withdrawal per kilowatt hour. Google, Microsoft, and Meta's combined water usage equals that of two Denmarks.
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Speaker 0: Data centers run very hot, and to improve efficiency, they cool them down with water. Like entire cities worth of water. The on-site consumption of an average data center amounts to up to 5,000,000 gallons of water per day, which is as much as 50,000 people used in an American city, or about 5,000,000 Fremen with a proper water discipline. A lot of the coolant water ends up evaporating and doesn't immediately return to the local water cycle. In 2022, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft consumed 1,500,000,000,000 liters of water in on-site cooling.
And despite efficiency improvements, their total water usage keeps growing. And that's important because I'm foreshadowing something dangerous. That's just lazy writing. The primary driver of this growth is AI. For instance, to train g t p three in Microsoft data centers, 700,000 liters of clean, fresh water was evaporated.
On average, data centers evaporate one to nine liters per kilowatt hour of server energy, depending on weather conditions and operational settings. If you've never heard of this before, that's on purpose. The Big Tech has been intentionally hiding this information from the public. Their water withdrawals are considered a trade secret, and official figures are proprietary. In some cases, they even go through hoops of shell companies to set up their data centers so that they wouldn't easily trace back to their parent company.
It's only recently that they started opening up. But if they talk about any water consumption at all, it is only the water they consume directly for cooling. But there is a much greater scope of water consumption most of these big tech companies fail to admit to. Data centers need a lot of energy to run, energy that is supplied to them from the power grid. This differs from place to place, but in The US, 73% of utility scale electricity is generated from thermoelectric power plants, which is plants that use water to create steam, which turns turbines that generate electricity.
To be more efficient with the fuel, these power plants also need to be cooled down, which they do with magnitudes of water. So remember how data centers consume one to nine liters of water per kilowatt hour? For electricity generation, additional 3.1 liters per kilowatt hour is consumed on average, and up to 43.8 liters per kilowatt hour is withdrawn. Most major big tech companies do not report on this off-site usage number at all. Yet, they are starting to consume more water than entire nations.
In fact, Google, Microsoft, and Meta, with their combined on-site and off-site water usage, withdraw as much water as two Danmarks.
@Wordofbeak - Maria Sederholm @Wordofbeak
#BigTech & #AI are running out of💧water. In the not so distant future, they will fight over scarce water sources to fund their expansion and business at the expense of agriculture and basic water consumption by people. 3/6 #SustainableDevelopment 🤔 Full video 🔗 at end of 🧵 https://t.co/ErfWOS98kg
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Big Tech companies often don't report off-site water usage, but Google, Microsoft, and Meta already withdraw as much water as two Denmarks combined through on-site and off-site operations. AI is projected to withdraw up to six Denmarks of water annually in three years. OpenAI's Sam Altman acknowledges AI's energy demand has surpassed expectations, potentially causing an energy crisis.
Data centers consume water on-site for cooling and off-site for electricity generation. Manufacturing devices also requires vast amounts of water, especially in semiconductor plants that use millions of liters daily for cooling and ultra-pure water production. Water consumption numbers from these plants are obscure, but estimated to be immense.
Water recycling could reduce usage, but isn't widely adopted. Discharged water from semiconductor plants is toxic, polluting local water resources. Mining is potentially the largest scope of water consumption.
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Speaker 0: Most major big tech companies do not report on this off-site usage number at all. Yet, are starting to consume more water than entire nations. In fact, Google, Microsoft and Meta, with their combined on-site and off-site water usage, withdraw as much water as two Danmarks. AI is projected to be withdrawing up to six Danmarks of water annually in just three years. Sam Altman from OpenAI has recently said the quiet part out loud that the energy demand of AI has vastly surpassed expectations.
He warns that this may shove energy systems into a crisis. But energy crisis is a water crisis, especially if like Altman, he hoped to solve the problem with nuclear fueled thermoelectric power plants. Well, he may have said this because he had invested into nuclear fusion startups. This is how much water data centers consume on-site for cooling. And this is how much water they consume from electricity generation.
Yet, this is not the whole picture. This is just scratching the surface. Because I'm gonna follow-up with a part where it starts to get really scary. Earlier, I mentioned that this video was brought to you by water. Well, whatever you're watching this video on has also been manufactured with astounding volumes of water.
All of the crucial components near phone, computer and by extension, server equipment and data centers were manufactured in large semiconductor plants withdrawing millions of liters of water every single day. That's the water they use to cool the plants down. But wafer fabrication also needs so called ultra pure water. Ultra pure water is made through an intensive process, which by extension consumes even more regular water during purification. Exact numbers on water consumption and withdrawal of these plants are largely obscure, but research estimates are immense.
There is some water recycling that could reduce water usage, but that isn't a widely adopted practice. Even so, the water discharged from semiconductor plants is toxic and contains hazardous waste, rendering local water resources unavailable for other uses. I am foreshadowing something here. Still, the water life cycle of the Big Tech hasn't come to an end yet. There is still one more scope of water consumption, perhaps the most enormous one of all, the great grandmother of all water usage: mining.
@Wordofbeak - Maria Sederholm @Wordofbeak
#BigTech & #AI are running out of💧water. In the not so distant future, they will fight over scarce water sources to fund their expansion and business at the expense of agriculture and basic water consumption by people. 4/6 #SustainableDevelopment 🤔 Full video 🔗 at end of 🧵 https://t.co/sbEmCG0DEf
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The IT industry relies on minerals like lithium and cobalt, and their extraction consumes massive amounts of water, causing pollution. As ore quality decreases and demand increases, extraction practices become more aggressive. The global demand for lithium is projected to rise 40 times by 2040. Disruptions like floods and droughts are forcing mining plants and factories to shut down.
Big tech data centers, often located in drought-stricken regions due to incentives, are increasing pressure on water levels, leading to conflict with farmers and local communities. Big tech is competing for water with agriculture, which accounts for 70% of human water usage.
The relentless push for AI adoption will multiply water consumption and energy demand, despite AI not being sustainable. AI-assisted searches consume up to five times more energy than conventional searches. Those pushing for AI adoption are often those who have invested heavily in it.
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Speaker 0: Still one more scope of water consumption, perhaps the most enormous one of all, the great grandmother of all water usage: mining. Every single IT component is made with expensive and oftentimes rare minerals and metals: Cadmium, Gallium, Tantalum, Lithium, or Cobalt. Modern extraction and processing methods consume colossal masses of water at monumental levels of pollution. With more and more intensive mining practices, the quality of ore is only decreasing with time. The demand isn't slowing down and as it grows, more aggressive extraction practices will be required.
And the demand grows on a galactic scale. By 02/1940, the global demand for lithium alone will rise over 40 times. Not 40%, 40 times. The cost of resource extraction will go up anytime there is a disruption event. Flooding and droughts are forcing plants to shut down and factories to hold production.
The entire chain of the IT industry is extremely vulnerable to these disruptions. Many of the big tech data centers, the very homes of AI, reside in drought stricken regions. Why there? Because of many incentives such as cheap land, tax breaks, and municipal subsidies. They're increasing pressure on the already stressed water levels, which is beginning to clash with farmers and local communities.
And this is what I had been foreshadowing this entire time. The big tech is gonna be competing for water with other major industries, and that's where clashes will spark conflict. 70% of human water usage comes from agriculture, which is already stressing water levels across the globe. The big tech sees that, but they build their data centers anyway because that's their prerogative. That's how they grow their business.
And now they are relentlessly pushing the AI hype train at full steam. It's now a whole movement to promote AI adoption into every single product. AI that is going to multiply their water consumption and energy demand, they have no way of making AI sustainable. The propaganda just keeps selling AI as the ultimate solution for all of our problems, like a cult. But AI is often just a needlessly expensive substitute to an already viable solution.
Search engines today are now offering AI chatbots, but an AI assisted search consumes up to five times more energy than a conventional search query. It's like a religious fanaticism. And it worries me. Those that push for AI adoption are those that invested their wealth into it.
@Wordofbeak - Maria Sederholm @Wordofbeak
#BigTech & #AI are running out of💧water. In the not so distant future, they will fight over scarce water sources to fund their expansion and business at the expense of agriculture and basic water consumption by people. 5/6 #SustainableDevelopment 🤔 Full video 🔗 at end of 🧵 https://t.co/AwZpgFOX19
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AI is being sold as a universal solution, but it's often a needlessly expensive substitute, like AI-assisted search consuming five times more energy. Big Tech, heavily invested in AI, may wage "water wars" by lobbying for control of mineral deposits, potentially through military means.
Military AI adoption is growing, making Big Tech contractors to defense departments with existing ties to the intelligence community. There's a push to privatize water, with media content potentially promoting it. The hypothetical AI apocalypse distracts from the real consequences of AI and Big Tech.
Infinite growth is unsustainable with finite water and energy, but Big Tech promotes it. We may face a choice between water for AI and water for food, with Big Tech lobbying for AI. The speaker urges viewers to watch their videos on billionaire influence and support their work on Patreon.
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Speaker 0: Propaganda just keeps selling AI as the ultimate solution for all of our problems. Like a cult. But AI is often just a needlessly expensive substitute to an already viable solution. Search engines today are now offering AI chatbots, but an AI assisted search consumes up to five times more energy than a conventional search query. It's like a religious fanaticism, and it worries me.
Those that push for AI adoption are those that invested their wealth into it. And this is what I mean that the Big Tech will wage water wars. It's not that the Big Tech will literally raise armies, it's that they will be lobbying for foreign policy decisions to take control of key mineral deposits through peaceful means or economic coercion or militarily. We've seen this happening in other resource conflicts throughout history. Now military tech is heavily computerized, military AI is being massively adopted, the big tech is slowly but surely becoming a contractor to defense departments.
They already have long established relationships with the intelligence community, which is an extension of military. There is a great push to privatize access to water. I can see billionaire philanthropists pushing for this idea, and suddenly YouTube videos and media content will flood the internet promoting it. We are just one step away from making that argument openly acceptable. This whole lore about how in the future AI may destroy humanity if left unchecked, that's just a sci fi hypothetical that is very successfully distracting from the very real and very immediate consequences of AI and big tech adoption right now.
We don't have infinite water and we don't have infinite energy. So why do we assume we can have infinite growth? It's because of them. They are telling us that we can have that. Until we reach a point where we'll have to decide between water for AI and water for growing food, and they'll lobby for the former.
That's why I'm making these videos on billionaire influence. Because it's powerful. Because our leaders had no reservations about sending thousands of young soldiers to die on foreign land while the elders were raking in record profits. Please watch at least one of my videos on these issues. You might not agree with me, and that's fine, but at least hear this perspective out.
None of my videos so far have been sponsored, so if you find value in this work, support me on Patreon, please. Thank you.
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Professor @anthonyzenkus: "It's really hard to just look at somebody and say: "That person is a predator". What you have to do is look at the behaviours, and listen to the things that they say". Me: Take a long hard look at Joe Biden. And listen. THREAD
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Grooming a child is facilitated by the power dynamic between adults and children. Anthony Zankis, an expert in sexual violence and trauma, emphasizes the importance of observing behaviors and listening to what individuals say rather than relying on appearances to identify predators. Warning signs include adults disregarding children's boundaries, persisting in physical contact despite discomfort, and discussing inappropriate topics like dating or bodies. While these behaviors do not automatically make someone a predator, they normalize violations of personal space for the child, which is unacceptable. Zankis stresses the need for everyone, regardless of age or gender, to have their physical boundaries respected. By empowering children to say no and speaking up on their behalf, we can prevent significant harm.
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Speaker 0: It's easy to groom a child because an adult always has a position of power over a child. I am Anthony Zankis. I am an expert in the fields of sexual violence, family violence, and trauma. It's really hard to just look at somebody and say, that person is a predator. What you have to do is look at the behaviors and listen to the things that they say.
We met before. It's hard to forget those eyes. Look at those eyes. Look at them. Can I have just removed?
Very good. Very clear warning Signs are adults who ignore children's boundaries when it comes to touching, kissing, holding, or They will engage in those behaviors with the child and continue them despite the fact that a child squirms away or Pulls away or voices any sort of discomfort verbally or non verbally. Most adults take those cues and realize, oh, they don't wanna be hugged or tickled right now and that's fine. Sex offenders and predators just plow right through it. Another is sexualizing a child by talking about dating or their bodies in a way that would not be appropriate for their age.
How old are you, 17? In all 6, you're turning 11. I get that. Just remember, no dates to your 30 years old. In my field, we often Say that child sex predators don't just groom children, they groom families and communities.
Seeing these behaviors in an adult doesn't mean that adult is a Predator or would ever harm a child, but what it does do is it sets that child up to grow up in a world where they view these violations Relations of personal space as normal and that's unacceptable. Everyone regardless of their gender expression or age deserves to walk through this world with their physical boundaries intact and not living in fear that they'll be violated. Offenders have depended on Not only the silence of their victims, but our silence. If we allow children the permission to say no or speak up for them when they can't, You're going to go a long way in preventing so much harm.