this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2025
205 points (97.2% liked)
Fuck AI
3036 readers
1039 users here now
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
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.
seawater is not all saltwater, its a bunch of other chemicals in it too.
I'm pretty sure desalinization doesn't scale. The salt needs to go somewhere.
And it takes a lot of energy
which may not be an issue since companies running AI stuff are planning to deploy civilian mini nuclear reactors around the country
it scales fine (roughly linear at large scale), people just don't want to pay the energy cost because they think farms need cheap water.
Where would the salt go?
brine evaporation ponds
Where does the salt go after the water evaporates from the brine? You can't just dump it back in the ocean, the concentration destroys wildlife.
Landfill? Salt deserts? It's gotta go somewhere.
Sell it for cheap to barbecue houses