AI surpasses 2024 Bitcoin mining in energy usage, uses more H₂O than the bottles of water people drink globally — says AI demand could hit 23GW and up to 764 billion liters of water in 2025

BrikoX@lemmy.zip · edit-2 8 days ago

AI surpasses 2024 Bitcoin mining in energy usage, uses more H₂O than the bottles of water people drink globally — says AI demand could hit 23GW and up to 764 billion liters of water in 2025

BrikoX@lemmy.zip · 8 days ago

The bottled water market globally is rapidly growing with approximately 550 million households consuming bottled water in 2024. That’s more than 446 Billion litres of water per year or 1 million bottles per minute.

https://tappwater.co/blogs/blog/how-many-people-consume-bottled-water-globally

kamenlady@lemmy.world · 8 days ago

1 million bottles per minute

Let that sink in

lime!@feddit.nu · 8 days ago

so that’s… seven percent?

AI surpasses 2024 Bitcoin mining in energy usage, uses more H₂O than the bottles of water people drink globally — says AI demand could hit 23GW and up to 764 billion liters of water in 2025

AI surpasses 2024 Bitcoin mining in energy usage, uses more H₂O than the bottles of water people drink globally — says AI demand could hit 23GW and up to 764 billion liters of water in 2025

AI surpasses 2024 Bitcoin mining in energy usage, uses more H20 than the bottles of water people drink globally, study claims — says AI demand could hit 23GW and up to 764 billion liters of water in 2025